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Meduza: Russia seeks to annex occupied areas in Ukraine, merge them into one federal district.

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Three sources close to the Kremlin told Meduza, a news outlet based in Latvia, that the federal district would be created after so-called referendums on joining Russia are held in the occupied parts of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk oblasts.

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Pokrovsk, a city that held back some of Russia’s fiercest assaults for over a year, is now on the verge of falling. The Kyiv Independent’s Francis Farrell explains how the battle reached this point and what Pokrovsk’s fall could mean for the wider defense of Donetsk Oblast.

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