The votes — taken by armed Russian soldiers in occupied regions where Ukrainian civilians are believed to have been tortured for suspected allegiance to Kyiv — have been denounced by Ukraine and it…
Moscow appeared poised to annex large swaths of Ukraine Wednesday, after declaring victory in a series of deeply flawed elections held in occupied territory., returned an unsurprisingly favorable result, with Moscow claiming landslide victories in favor of Russian annexation.
“Forcing people in these territories to fill out some papers at the barrel of a gun is yet another Russian crime in the course of its aggression against Ukraine,” Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Russian occupation officials in those regions said Wednesday they would now formally request recognition as Russian territory from the Kremlin.
The Kremlin announced the sham referendum on annexation as Ukrainian forces have reclaimed large swaths of territory during an offensive this month.Following that annexation, sham referenda were held in smaller regions of Luhansk and Donetsk to declare independent “people’s republics” around those provinces’ eponymous capital cities.
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