UPDATE: 'Sham ‘referendums’ will not change anything,' tweets Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.
Russian-installed leaders in occupied areas of four Ukrainian regions set out plans for referendums on joining Russia this week, a step an ally of President Vladimir Putin said would alter the geopolitical landscape forever.
In a post on social media addressed to Putin, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic , Denis Pushilin, wrote: “I ask you, as soon as possible, in the event of a positive decision in the referendum – which we have no doubt about – to consider the DPR becoming a part of Russia.” Washington and the West have so far said weapons they supply to Ukraine should not be used to fire on Russian territory, though they have not extended this to territory they view as unlawfully annexed, such as Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014.
Andriy Yermak, chief of staff to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, dismissed the threat of referendums as “naive blackmail” and as a sign that Russia was running scared.Russia has declared capturing all of Luhansk and Donetsk provinces to be the main aim of its “special military operation” since its invasion forces were defeated in March on the outskirts of Kyiv.
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