Pelosi: Putin ‘is the same tyrant who attacked our democracy in 2016’

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay a price for his “evil move” toward Ukraine.

Earlier this week, Putin called two occupied regions in Ukraine — the Luhansk People’s Republic and the Donetsk People’s Republic — independent, and he ordered what the Russian government called “peacekeeping” troops into those regions, in what the United States said was a prelude to an invasion.

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