• During a meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.france24.com/en/video/20220222-putin-has-no-plans-to-restore-the-russian-empire" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Putin said he does not seek to restore the Russian empire</a>, following his claims that "modern Ukraine was entirely created by [Soviet] Russia […]" in his late-night speech.<ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; list-style-position: inside; box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The backstory: Russia recognized two breakaway regions of Georgia as independent in 2008, maintains peacekeeping troops in a breakaway pro-Russian region of Moldova, and annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">This just in: Vladimir Putin stated during a press conference that the Minsk agreements, which were intended to end the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, "<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-698276" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">no longer exist</a>," the Russian TASS news agency reported.</li></ul>

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