Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to sign four treaties to absorb swaths of Ukrainian territory into the Russian Federation, signaling a sharp escalation in the war as Kyiv vowed to retake occupied areas
MOSCOW— and its Western backers prepared to supply more money and arms.
Annexing Russian-controlled Luhansk and areas of Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia is a pivotal part of the Russian leader’s war goals. It effectively provides Moscow a land bridge to Crimea, the peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014, which is home to its Black Sea fleet. That earlier move represented the first action of its kind in Europe since the end of World War II, triggering Western sanctions against Russia and upending long-held assumptions about security on the continent.
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