Is Russia Following an Annexation Playbook?

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White House spokesman John Kirby said Russia's following an annexation playbook. "We have to be hugely skeptical of this referendum and how it will go from every point of international law," he says. The first step for Russia after the troops entered was to point local officials that were willing to switch sides, writes Frida Ghitis.

Russia is paying teachers big bucks to teach a pro-Kremlin curriculum in Ukraine. It’s part of a campaign to formally annex occupied Ukraine into the Russian Federation.

This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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