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With even Russian state TV hosts showing signs of despondency at the battlefield losses, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed the idea that they undermined the annexation of the regions.
“Worthless decisions by a terrorist country are not worth the paper they are signed on,” he said. Kyiv says it will never accept an illegal imperial-style land grab and has recaptured hundreds of square miles of its own territory in recent weeks.Īndriy Yermak, head of Ukraine’s presidential office, said on Telegram that what Russia was doing reminded him of a “collective madhouse”. He later said Russia would stabilise the situation there, an indirect acknowledgement of the challenges it faces to assert its control. The Russian leader’s signature was the final stage in the legal process to annex Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine and Zaporizhzhia and Kherson in the south. Including Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, Moscow is laying claim to almost a quarter of Ukraine, though it has yet to spell out where all of the borders will be located and its own troops have been forced to retreat on two fronts. Pushing ahead with Europe’s biggest annexation since World War Two, Putin signed off on a law annexing up to 18 per cent of Ukraine, some of which Moscow’s forces do not control.
President Vladimir Putin formally incorporated four partially-occupied Ukrainian regions into Russia on Wednesday, a move Kyiv condemned as a meaningless land grab dreamt up by “a collective madhouse”.
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