Russia plans to allocate 1.9 trillion roubles ($20bn) from the federal budget over the next two and a half years to the development of the four Ukrainian regions that Moscow annexed last year, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin said, APA reports citing Al Jazeera.
The move to unilaterally annex the provinces of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhia was condemned by Ukraine and the West and called “illegal”.
Russian forces have taken only partial control of the four provinces in southeastern Ukraine.
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