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This is al jazeera and these are the top stories. The sour rushes president vladimir persian has signed into law, the annexation of 4 ukrainian regions a week off the separatist referendums that keep and its allies cold, a sham. But the kremlin now controls less of those regions than it did when the votes were held till noon us. Yet, the Ukrainian Army is carrying out a pretty fast and powerful advance in the south of our country as part of the current offensive operation. Thus dozens of settlements have already been liberated from the russian sham referendum. This week alone is in the course onregional, the car key region. 2, hans and domestic regions altogether says that our warriors do not stallnicker. And its only a matter of time before we oust the occupier from our land. The us south korea and japan conducting military drills in response to north korea. Massage launch on tuesday, the u. S. Navy flagship aircraft carrier, heated to the sea of japan. The training with the south kor
Looks more like a weather war zone than a vacation destination, and many here wonder if it will ever be the same. Leah harding al jazeera. Ah, its good to leave with us. Hello, adrian, that i got a hearing though. How the headlines on al jazeera, russias president has signed into law, the annexation of 4 ukrainian regions. A week after referendums, the cave and its allies called a sham. But the kremlin now controls less of those reasons than it did when the votes were held. President Vladimir Putin says he hopes the situation on the front line will soon stabilize washing forces have been pushed back by ukrainians in the south and east. Was fighting wages on the battlefield. Ukraine is joining a bid to co host the 2030 football world cup. Under the plan, ukraine would be part of spain and portugal joint bid for the tournament. And host matches for one of the groups represent thomas. And together we represent the power of transformation that football has in society, words such as transfo
Type of quick check of deadlines here on al jazeera, russias president is finalizing his plans to annex for ukrainian regions. The upper house of parliament has approved the legislation, which now heads to Vladimir Putin for his signature. Merely cranes president says his troops are making rapid and powerful progress against Russian Forces in the south and east. Let me, as lensky says, dozens of towns and villages have been liberated in the past week. South korea and the u. S. Have carried out, miss allen. Ed rhodes, in response to a miss our launch by north korea. Young youngs missile went to the japanese territory, prompting International Condemnation and calls for an emergency meeting of the un security council. Rob mcbride as more or less after in capital. South korea had promised a resolute response, sir, to choose days launch from its military and overnight tuesday into wednesday. Local time. We have seen what that response is with the firing of these 4 missiles from a south kore
On our website. The rest of that is our 0 dot com ah, one of the top stories and era, the upper house, the rushes parliament has approved the annexation of full regions in ukraine. It will now go to president Vladimir Putin for a final rectification. Thats despite ukraine pushing back Russian Forces on 2 separate battle fronts in those areas, including house on whether advance could threaten supply lines for russian troops. What does that mean . Does increase the re, with more ukraines advance . The military is not giving much details. President zalinski talked about only 2 villages being liberated, but the social media there is evidence of the ukrainian soldiers arriving in various 1000 villages and hoisting the ukrainian flag. The same scenario happened in the north east of the country. Now, the russian appointed administration in the head san in the occupied bard or has said that the ukrainians have advanced a long a didnt he pro river and of his own region. A major influx of russia