Ukrainian forces have recaptured dozens of settlements in the past few days in the country’s south, but the Kremlin is confident they will be ‘returned’.
| Ukrainian forces have retaken more settlements in Kherson, one of the partially Russian-occupied southern regions that Moscow claims to have annexed, says President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The new law would incorporate about 18 per cent of Ukraine’s territory into Russia, equivalent to the area of Portugal, in Europe’s biggest annexation since World War II. Mr Putin said he wanted to ensure Russia’s security and protect Russian-speakers in Ukraine. Kyiv accuses Moscow of a land grab for territory.Russia’s move to annex the regions raises the possibility of escalation in the war.
Thousands of Russian troops retreated after the front line crumbled, first in the north-east, and, since the beginning of this week, also in the south.Mr Putin celebrated the annexations in a ceremony in the Kremlin followed by a concert on Red Square last week, only hours before Ukrainian forces captured Lyman, Russia’s main bastion in the northern part of Donetsk.
In one of his first moves to assert his rule over the four annexed provinces, Mr Putin ordered the Russian state to seize control of the Zaporizhzhia power station, Europe’s biggest, still run by Ukrainian engineers despite being captured early in the war by Russian forces. In recent days, Russia detained the plant’s Ukrainian manager. He was released but will not return to work. The head of Ukraine’s state nuclear energy company Energoatom, Petro Kotin, said he was taking charge of the plant and urged workers not to sign any documents with its Russian occupiers.
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