“The White House on Tuesday doubled down on its assertion that Russia will try to annex additional Ukrainian territory, warning that Moscow intends to claim as its own large swaths of the country’s east and south sometime later this year,” the Washington Post reports.
Russia Seeks to Annex Ukraine’s East
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