Russia to begin annexation votes in Ukrainian regions on Friday
Russia will on Friday begin its plan to annex around 15 per cent of Ukrainian territory via referendums in four regions controlled by Russian forces, a move the West says is a gross violation of international law that significantly escalates the war.
The voting, which the West and Ukraine says is a sham, is due to begin on Friday and will end on Tuesday, with results expected soon afterwards.“The Kremlin is organizing a sham referenda to try to annex parts of Ukraine,” U.S. President Joe Biden told the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Putin, Russia’s paramount leader since 1999, said Russia would never abandon those in the regions it controls and whom he said wanted to secede from Kyiv. It is unclear exactly how the votes will work in a war zone when so many people have been displaced. Russia controls most of Luhansk and Kherson, around 80% of Zaporizhzhia and just 60 per cent of Donetsk. Fighting continues in all four regions.British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said Russian-installed officials in the regions were setting targets for invented voter turnouts and approval rates, with some turnout figures already agreed.
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