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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he was introducing martial law in four Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine that Moscow claimed last month as its own territory but is struggling to defend from Ukrainian advances.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday introduced martial law in Ukraine's Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions that Moscow claims to have annexed. "I signed a decree to introduce martial law in these four subjects of the Russian Federation," Putin said during a televised National Security Council meeting.
Putin imposes martial law in four Russia-annexed regions of Ukraine
President Putin says special operations are beng carried out in the Donbas region but that Russia does not intended to occupy Ukrainian territory.
The United States says that President Vladimir Putin's imposition of martial law in annexed Ukrainian territories shows his claim people wanted to join Russia was a "lie." "President Putin annexed these regions claiming that there were individuals in these regions who so desperately sought refuge from the Ukrainian state that they wanted to join Mother Russia," State Department spokesperson Ned Price tells reporters. "Now Putin is, I think, proving the lie by declaring martial law." SOUNDBITE
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