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Putin signs law to change time zones in annexed territories in Ukraine to Moscow time
From CNN’s Uliana PavlovaRussian President Vladimir Putin signed a law to include the annexed Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions in eastern Ukraine to the Moscow time, according to the decree published on the state government portal on Friday.
Unofficially, the regions have already been operating in Moscow time since the annexation.
According to the adopted law, these four regions are included in the second time zone (Moscow time, UTC + 3), switching from Kyiv time UTC + 2 (one hour less than in Moscow) in winter and UTC + 3 in summer.
In September, Putin declared that people living in the occupied regions of "Luhansk and Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia are becoming our citizens. Forever."
This was announced in a ceremony to assimilate the regions, which make up 18% of Ukraine, following illegal referendums in which pro-Russian officials in the controlled areas voted on whether the territories should join Russia.
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