MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said the situation in four territories of Ukraine that Russia claims to have annexed was "extremely difficult."

"The situation in the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions is extremely difficult," Putin told the Russian security services on their professional holiday.

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