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Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine said Saturday it encircled several thousand Russian troops near a key town in one of the four Moscow-held territories that President Vladimir Putin annexed a day earlier despite condemnation from Kyiv and the West. Putin staged a grand ceremony in the Kremlin on Friday to celebrate the annexations of four territories controlled by his army. “I want to say this to the Kyiv regime and its masters in the West: People living in Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia are becoming our citizens forever,” Putin said. US President Joe Biden condemned Friday’s ceremony…