Separatist Ukrainian Regions Plan Vote To Join Russia

The Associated Press reports:

The separatist leaders of four Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine said Tuesday they were planning to hold votes starting later this week for the territories to become part of Russia as Moscow loses ground in the war it launched.

The four regions are Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia. The announcements of referendums starting Friday came after a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said they were needed.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev also said that folding Luhansk and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine into Russia itself would make their redrawn frontiers “irreversible” and enable Moscow to use “any means” to defend them.

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As Ukrainian forces continued to press forward in eastern Ukraine, reclaiming land that Moscow spent months pounding into ruins, Russia’s proxy leaders in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions issued pleas to have their territories annexed by the Kremlin.https://t.co/fMxm7BJgUt

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