PUBLISHED TUE, JUL 19 20225:02 PM EDTUPDATED TUE, JUL 19 20225:27 PM EDT

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/19/russia-ukraine-war-russia-taking-steps-to-annex-ukraine-territory-us-says.html

Amanda Macias@AMANDA_M_MACIAS

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KEY POINTS

• Russia is laying the groundwork to annex parts of Ukraine, according to U.S. intelligence.
• “We’re seeing ample evidence and intelligence and in the public domain that Russia intends to try to annex additional Ukrainian territory,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters at the White House.
• Kirby that the U.S. observed a similar Russian playbook in 2014 ahead of the Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula on the Black Sea.

Britain’s Ministry of Defense has said that Russian forces, having seized the Luhansk province in the Donbas after weeks of intense shelling, are likely to employ the same tactics to seize Donetsk

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