occupied territories

Russia, in negotiations with the United States in Saudi Arabia, demands full control over the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson oblasts of Ukraine, despite the fact that it has not been able to occupy part of these lands, The Moscow Times writes, citing its own sources familiar with the matter.

Seven boys aged 3 to 17 were returned from the temporarily occupied east bank of Kherson Oblast, as reported by the regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin.