Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has likened Russia’s 2014 seizure of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula to “kids being stolen and issued a new birth certificate,” as the country marked 28 years of independence on August 24.
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RFE/RL: Zelensky likens Russia’s seizure of Crimea to ‘kids being stolen’
A Russian soldier patrols in front of a placard reading "Fascism will not pass! All to the referendum!" near the Ukrainian navy headquarters in the Crimean city of Sevastopol on March 19, 2014.
