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The country resolved to prepare itself for the possibility of a new conflict after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 and launched a proxy war for control of the Donbas region.

He has also made it his long-running mission to ensure no Palestinian state arises — something he hoped to achieve by conquering Gaza and annexing the West Bank.

Hours before the May 1960 opening of Amsterdam’s Anne Frank House, Otto Frank gazes at the empty annex where his family and four other Jews hid from the Nazis for more than two years.

Israel responded by hinting it could annex the West Bank, the heart of any future state.

About a quarter are of European descent, and the islands have been under French control since they were annexed in 1853.