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Russian President Vladimir Putin signs an accord to annex the occupied regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia at a treaty signing ceremony in St George’s Hall at the Kremlin. The President signs alongside the leaders of the Moscow-held regions, and in front of Russian deputies and senators. IMAGES
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.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that the people of four Moscow-occupied Ukraine regions are becoming "Russian citizens forever", during his address at the annexation treaty signing ceremony for the regions of Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia after so-called referendums that Moscow organised. He also claims the West wants to see Russia as a "colony".
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 International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert gives his perspective.
President Vladimir Putin proclaimed Russia's annexation of a swath of Ukraine on Friday in a speech at the Kremlin but the event was overshadowed by one of Russia's worst battlefield defeats of the war, with one of its main garrisons surrounded.