The United States stated Thursday that President Vladimir Putin’s imposition of martial regulation in annexed Ukrainian territories confirmed his declare humans desired to sign up for Russia changed into a “lie.” “President Putin annexed those areas claiming that there have been people in those areas who so desperately sought safe haven from the Ukrainian country that they desired to sign up for Mother Russia,” State Department spokesman Ned Price informed reporters. “Now Putin is, I think, proving the lie with the aid of using putting forward martial regulation.”