As Russian lawmakers ratified the annexation of four regions of southern Ukraine Tuesday, the amount of territory actually controlled by Russia continued to shrink. Ukrainian.
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As Russian lawmakers ratified the annexation of four regions of southern Ukraine Tuesday, the amount of territory actually controlled by Russia continued to shrink. Ukrainian authorities say the counteroffensive in the country’s south is gathering steam and Russian forces have been pushed out of numerous towns and villages, the BBC reports. In his nightly address Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said “dozens of settlements” in southern Ukraine had been liberated in “fast, powerful movements.
