AVILO-USPENKA, Russia – To enter Russia from occupied Ukraine, all Tatiana has to do is arrive at the edge of
Moscow has controlled several key border points since 2014 but the frontier has become more porous since the Kremlin annexed four Ukrainian territories last year, encouraging residents to take up new citizenship.
“We had two borders to cross, which meant long, long traffic queues,” she said near a motel on the frontier. They illustrate how quickly Russian authorities are seeking to absorb occupied territories, even though the international community, including Russia’s allies, do not recognize Moscow’s authority there.
But its military still does not fully control any of the four regions annexed last year, and Ukrainian forces are gaining ground in two of them—Zaporizhzhia in the south and Donetsk in the east. A taxi driver, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that two of his passengers — a mother and her son — had recently been stopped by Russian customs officers as they left the Ukrainian region of Lugansk.
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