Ukraine said Saturday it encircled several thousand Russian troops near a key town in one of the four Moscow-held territories that President Vladimir Putin annexed a day earlier
A worker stands in a crater in front of a heavily damaged house in a residential area of Kramatorsk on July 4, 2022, the day after a Russian rocket attack. Genya SAVILOV / AFP
US President Joe Biden condemned Friday’s ceremony in Moscow as a “sham routine” and pledged to continue backing Kyiv. The four annexed territories create a crucial land corridor between Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014. Turkey said Saturday Russia’s annexation was a “grave violation of the established principles of international law”.
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