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Ukraine Annexed?
The White House says Russia is planning to start annexing Ukrainian Territory
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he White House national security council spokesman John Kirby is reporting that United States intelligence officials have enough evidence that Russia is now looking to annex the additional Ukraine territory and they could hold a fake election as soon as September. John Kirby said, "This is out of the playbook, and we've seen them do it in the past. What we're seeing now is a more concerted, more strategic effect." John Kirby said Russia is now looking at Kherson as well as the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts. President Joe Biden administration has been talking for some time that Russia could be looking to annex the areas where they have made territorial gains. John Kirby declined to talk about the new intelligence, although he did say that it proposes a "more united effort" towards the annexation. John Kirby said, "Russia is
laying the ground work to annex Ukrainian territory that it controls in direct violation of Ukraine sovereignty." The Senate Foreign
Relations Committee has given easy bipartisan approval to accept Finland and Sweden into NATO, as the lawmakers are aiming
for a quick Senate passage and also for a show of congressional support for expansion of the United States and European defense alliance in the face of Russia's war in Ukraine. The Committee members have now approved the expansion by vote. Senator Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican and frequent critic of United States policy abroad, has voted a neutral present instead of saying a yes or no. This vote will set up the expansion for a decision by the full Senate as soon as that becomes possible. John Kirby said, "We obviously want to see Finland and Sweden brought into the alliance as soon as possible." He also said, "These are modern militaries, militaries that we know well," he stressed the strength that supporters say these two countriesof Finland and Sweden would bring to the military bloc.
