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KRAKO, Poland - Fresh from its victory over the last armed Ukrainian resistance in the devastating city of Mariupol, Russia on Thursday appeared to be laying the groundwork for reconciling the swaths of southeastern Ukraine, a high-ranking…

President Vladimir V. Putin on Wednesday described the war in Ukraine as part of an existentialist conflict with the United States and always set the stage for extremism, calling pro-Western Russians "traitors and traitors" who need to be…