Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that the situation in the areas of Ukraine that Russia says it has annexed was "difficult in places".
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However Putin, speaking at a televised meeting with officials, said Russia had all the resources it needed to improve life in the four Ukrainian regions that Moscow unilaterally claimed to have annexed in September.
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