The pro-Russian authorities of the Ukrainian regions of Lugansk and Kherson announced on Wednesday that they would ask President Vladimir Putin to join Russia, the day after a vote of annexation widely condemned by the international community.
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Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich (...) I ask you to consider the issue of joining the Lugansk People's Republic to Russia as a subject of the Russian Federation
," said the pro-Russian separatist leader of Lugansk ( is), Leonid Passetchnik, in a text published on Telegram.
A similar letter was sent by Vladimir Saldo, who heads the occupation administration in Kherson (south).
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