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Putin organizes ceremony to announce biggest annexation in Europe since Nazi era

Putin organizes ceremony to announce biggest annexation in Europe since Nazi era

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a ceremony to declare Russia's rule over about 15% of Ukraine, the biggest annexation in Europe since the Nazi era.

The announcement will be followed by a festive concert outside the Kremlin walls in Red Square. Russia's annexation of the Russian-occupied areas of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia has been condemned by the West and beyond.

UN chief Antonio Guterres called it a "dangerous escalation" and a violation of the United Nations charter.

The Russian annexation, held after what the West denounced as fake referendums at gunpoint in the occupied territory, followed weeks of battlefield defeats for Moscow's forces in which they were driven from their positions in northeastern Ukraine. .

Putin has ordered the call-up of hundreds of thousands of Russian reservists, a move that has caused tens of thousands of Russian men to flee across borders to avoid being drafted into the war.

Source: Euronews

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