Explainer-Russia unfolds annexation plan for Ukraine


  • World
  • Tuesday, 20 Sep 2022

Pedestrians walk past a monument to Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Luhansk, Ukraine September 20, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

LONDON (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday announced plans by separatists in Ukraine to hold referendums paving the way for the formal annexation of swathes of territory after nearly seven months of war with its neighbour, a former Soviet republic.

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