Festivities aside, Mr. Putin's declaration will signal a new and more dangerous phase of the war.The Kremlin announced the annexation plans on Thursday, saying Mr. Putin would sign documents on the entry of new territories into the Russian Federation and give "a voluminous speech.""He is provoking an escalation of the war, transferring it to some new status."In recent days, Mr. Putin and Russian state media have escalated their rhetoric about the primary enemy being the West - which, in their telling, is using Ukraine as a proxy force to try to destroy Russia.
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