Pro-Kremlin Leaders Of Ukraine's Lugansk, Kherson Ask Putin To Annex Regions
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published September 28, 2022 | 04:30 PM
Moscow, Sept 28 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 28th Sep, 2022 ) :The pro-Moscow leaders of Ukraine's Lugansk and Kherson regions called on President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to formally annex the territories into Russia, claiming residents had backed the move in a referendum.
The Kremlin-backed leader of the breakaway Lugansk region, Leonid Pasechnik, made the appeal to Putin claiming residents there had been under attack for eight years by Ukraine's army.
Moscow-backed separatists have controlled large portions of Lugansk since 2014 when Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula.
"Taking into account the decision of the republic's population at the referendum, I am asking you to consider making the Luhansk People's Republic a subject of the Russian Federation," Pasechnik said in a statement published by rebel officials.
His announcement was quickly followed by a similar appeal from Vladimir Saldo, the Moscow-installed leader of Ukraine's southern Kherson region, which was captured by Russia after the start of Moscow's military campaign on February 24.
"Our residents made a historic choice and decided to become part of the multinational population of the Russian Federation, in which all people are equal before each other and before the law," Saldo said in a statement published on social media.
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