Pro-Kremlin authorities in the Russian-controlled region of Kherson and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region announced on Tuesday that they would hold referendums on joining Russia from September 23 to 27.
elections will be held in the self-declared republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, which Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized as independent just before sending troops to Ukraine in February, according to officials and news organizations,
When nationwide protests forced Ukraine’s Kremlin-friendly president from office in 2014, Moscow-backed separatists seized control of significant portions of Donbas.
Ukraine and the West protested Russia’s decision to annex the Crimean peninsula at the time.
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