Ukraine war: Russia demands annexations recognised before talks
The Kremlin says the West’s refusal to recognise its seizure of Ukrainian land makes talks harder. …
It complicated the search for a mutual basis for talks, he said, that the US did not recognise “new territories” in Ukraine. At the end of September, President Putin declared four Ukrainian regions as part of Russia, but while Russian forces in eastern Ukraine occupy most of Luhansk, their invasion of Donetsk has stalled and they are on the back foot in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south.
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