Putin's parliament speech after deadliest pre-Christmas Ukraine strike with 600+ UAVs, 30 missiles

Vladimir Putin just declared that the “unity of Russia’s 89 regions” is the source of the country’s strength, a phrase that hides a geopolitical bombshell. Behind that number are territories most of the world still recognizes as Ukrainian—Crimea, Sevastopol, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia—folded into Moscow’s map but rejected by international law.