The Russian Federation may try to hold bogus referendums to give the appearance of democratic or electoral legitimacy.
Russia will try to annex the occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions / photo REUTERS
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US intelligence reports that Russia will try to “attach” the Donetsk and Lugansk regions before “mid-May”, and the Russians also plan to annex the Kherson region and create “KhNR”.
This was announced by US Ambassador to the OSCE Michael Carpenter at a briefing at the State Department, reports CNN.
“There is ‘credible’ intelligence in the US that Russia will attempt to annex the separatist-occupied Donetsk and Lugansk regions ‘sometime in mid-May’ and that there are plans to create a similar so-called ‘people’s republic’ in the Kherson region… In reports it is said that Russia plans to hold a referendum on joining Russia sometime in mid-May, and that Moscow is considering a similar plan for Kherson,” he said.
