Russian Consulate in New York vandalized with red paint

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The Russian Consulate in New York City was vandalized Friday, with the building splattered in red paint.NYPD received a call just after 1:30 p.m. about criminal mischief at the building, located on East 91st Street, the NYPD said in a statement to CBS News.Russian President Vladimir Putin proclaimed earlier Friday that four Ukrainian regions will be annexed and become a part of Russia.Putin said Russia would never surrender control of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions and warned in a speech that Russia would protect them as part of its sovereign territory with "all available means."Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that his nation was submitting an "accelerated" application to join the NATO military alliance."

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