Vladimir has declared that occupied parts of Ukraine are now part of after staging sham referendums in four regions, vowing to use 'all our forces to defend them' as the war enters a dangerous new phase. The Russian despot, speaking in front of his cronies in Moscow, gave his own warped interpretation of events - saying that 'million of people' in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia had 'opted' to become vassals of Russia and he would accept their choice, despite voting being carried out at gunpoint and in the midst of a war. 'They are our people, forever,' he said to a standing ovation inside the Kremlin's grand Georgian Hall before calling on Ukraine and its Western allies to abandon hopes of re-taking them, repeating a threat to use 'all forces' to defend the 'new territories' - once again raising fears that he could escalate to using Russia's huge nuclear arsenal.
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