John Rothmann asks, “How should we respond?”
Are we impotent?
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday recognized the independence of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, hours before holding a signing ceremony to incorporate them into the Russian Federation. Putin signed a decree recognizing the two southern Ukrainian regions as independent states on Friday. He also signed a similar decree earlier in February, when he recognized two breakaway regions in the east of Ukraine, Luhansk and Donetsk, as independent states. Kyiv and Western powers do not recognize the two self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk as sovereign states.
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