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Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko likely deflected Vladimir Putin’s efforts to coerce Belarus into further Russian-Belarus integration concessions, says the Institute for the Study of War, following the meeting in Minsk on Monday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin declares martial law in the Ukraine regions Russia says it has annexed. "I have signed a decree on the introduction of martial law in these four subjects of the Russian Federation," he confirms during a televised National Security Council meeting.
Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary Seneral, rejects Putin's "land grab" and denounces Russia's "illegitimate" annexation of four Ukrainian regions. Stoltenberg's comments come on the day that the Moscow-installed leaders of the occupied regions of Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Luhansk and Donetsk signed an annexation accord with Putin at the Kremlin.
Vladimir Putin said four occupied and annexed Ukrainian regions will be part of Russia "forever" and declared "victory will be ours" at Moscow rally.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed treaties to annex four Moscow-occupied Ukrainian regions -- Donetsk, Kherson, Lugansk and Zaporizhzhia -- at a grand ceremony in the Kremlin. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg reports from Kyiv, Ukraine.