When Russian President Vladimir Putin formally announced that Moscow will annex four occupied regions of Ukraine?

A. September 24, 2022 

B. September 26, 2022 

C. September 28, 2022 

D. September 30, 2022 

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees on Sept. 30 to annex four regions of Ukraine. In a grand ceremony in the Kremlin, he said Russia would formally incorporate Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions — and that the people living there would “be our citizens forever.”