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Newsweek: Ukraine’s foreign minister fires back at Putin’s claim country is a US pawn

Published June 30, 2021. Updated June 30 at 7:23 pm

This undated photo shows Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.

Photo by The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba responded to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comment on the country being a U.S. pawn by tweeting, “This is our country and it’s only up to us to decide our fate.”