Russian President Vladimir Putin will maintain a signing ceremony on Friday formally annexing 4 extra areas of Ukraine after self-styled referendums condemned by Ukraine and the West as a sham.
Russian-backed officers claimed the five-day train secured nearly complete in style help.
So-called votes had been held in Luhansk and Donetsk within the east, and in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson within the south.
The Russian president will make a serious speech on the Kremlin.
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