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This week, Moscow-appointed leaders in four occupied regions of Ukraine appealed for speedy referendums to justify Russia annexing them.Some analysts said that Ukraine’s recent battlefield wins forced Moscow to rush the referendums so Russia can lay claim to captured territory before it shrinks.The planned referendums clearly expose a falsehood Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed at the outset of the February 24 invasion:It is not our plan to occupy Ukrainian territory
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