U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff sparked controversy after parroting Russian propaganda narratives on Ukraine in an interview with far-right commentator Tucker Carlson, released on March 21. Witkoff claimed that people in partially or fully occupied Ukrainian regions like Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and Crimea want to be part of Russia because people there "speak Russian" and "indicated that they want to be under Russian rule" during the sham referendums held by Russian-installed

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