KYIV, Ukraine — The day after Russian President Vladimir Putin proudly proclaimed the illegal annexation of Ukraine’s Donetsk region, thousands of his troops withdrew from a strategic town there under Ukrainian fire.
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Updated October 1, 2022 at 12:37 p.m. EDT|Published October 1, 2022 at 6:06 a.m. EDT