Kremlin comments on fate of Russian lands 'occupied' by Kiev

Newly-incorporated regions still under Kiev's military control will be freed, Putin's spokesman said
Russian troops are yet to liberate parts of the former Ukrainian regions that joined Russia in October but which remain under Kiev's military control, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has told journalists.
Moscow had incorporated several formerly Ukrainian provinces “within the framework of protecting people” living there, the official said. He was responding to a question about remarks made by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.
The Russian leader said that the inclusion of new territories was “a meaningful result” of military action against Ukraine, adding that making the Azov Sea an internal Russian body of water was “a serious thing.” Putin stressed that the people living in the new territories were the most important aspect of the transitions.
Peskov noted that Moscow has made “no statements” about the possible absorption of additional territories into Russia, but that it had every intention to...

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