The Russian State Duma and Federation Council were set to enact the annexation of Ukraine’s Kherson and Zaporizhia regions and the Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” (“DPR,” “LPR”) to the Russian Federation, following the September 23-27 annexation “referendums” in those areas. The Duma’s chair, Vyacheslav Volodin, refered to those aggregated territories as Novorossiya (Interfax, September...
Russia consummates annexation ‘referendums’ in occupied Ukrainian territories
By Vladimir Socor/Eurasia Daily Monitor5 Mins Read