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Putin and Ukraine

PUTIN has presided over a ceremony at which he declared that Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaprizhzhia regions were Russian territory.

Obviously, Ukraine rejects the pretension, and at a press conference the NATO leadership did the same.

THE TURNING POINT Russia’s President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a ceremony formally annexing four regions of Ukraine occupied by his troops — Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia — at the Kremlin in the capital Moscow on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. AFP PHOTO