took an active part in the work of an "election commission" set up by the occupation authorities to hold a sham referendum on whether the temporarily occupied territory of Kherson Oblast should secede ...

The sham votes, which are expected to take place on the same day as elections in Russian regions, show the Kremlin’s ambition to present the areas as integral parts of Russia, even though Russian ...

A court has passed the first judgment on the organization of sham referenda in the south of ... Russia's tasks to organize and hold the illegal referendum in the temporarily occupied part of the south ...

For U.S. strategists, however, allowing Russia to keep Crimea could be the face-saver Putin needs to agree to ending the war.

Ukraine has a long history of battling ... own in September in an exercise Ukraine and its allies called a "sham," coercive referendum. Some information in this report came from The Associated ...

The court has sentenced one of the organizers of Russia's pseudo-referendum in the Beryslav district of Kherson region to five years in prison. That's according to the security service of ukraine ...

A Ukrainian court has issued the first verdict in a wartime collaboration case, sentencing a woman from the Kherson region to five years in prison for helping organize a “referendum ... regions of ...

Or is it the offensive itself? Read Mike Eckel's report here. Is The Ukraine War A Classic Case Of Wars Rarely, If Ever, Going As Planned? An Interview With Lawrence Freedman British historian ...

The war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. European Union leaders met in Kyiv with President Volodymyr ...

After Ukraine surprised many experts around the ... "While Russia's 2014 referendum was a sham, that doesn't cancel out the fact that a significant part of the population was OK with Russia's ...

"The goal of Putin's war... is not only the subjugation of the Ukrainian people, but also the destruction of their identity," archaeologist Pavlo Shydlovskyi told Newsweek. Russia and Ukraine will ...

took an active part in the work of an "election commission" set up by the occupation authorities to hold a sham referendum on whether the temporarily occupied territory of Kherson Oblast should secede ...