UK Would Never Recognize Territory Annexed by Putin, Prime Minister SaysUK Prime Minister Liz Truss said that Britain would never recognize the four regions annexed by Russia on Sept. 30 as "anything other than Ukrainian territory."
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday presided over an elaborate ceremony in Moscow marking the "accession" of four regions—Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson—to the Russian Federation.
Kyiv and its allies decried the move, which they say amounts to de facto "annexation" of the territories by Russia.
"The referendums have no legal value," Mikhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, told the Italian press on Sept. 30.
"Under international law, the regions are and remain territories of Ukraine, and Ukraine is ready to do anything to take them back," he added....
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