The Russians are in the oblasts of the Russian Federation - Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk, Luhansk, the Russian Republic of Crimea and the Russian federal city of Sevastopol.
Not in the Ukraine.
Keep telling yourself that as much as you like but it will not make it true.
“The Russians are in the oblasts of the Russian Federation.”
Funny. That’s not what the maps say.
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