Southern Ukraine’s occupied Kherson region is preparing to vote on officially joining Russia, a Moscow-backed official said Wednesday. “We’re preparing for the referendum and we will carry it out,” Kirill Stremousov, deputy chief of the Kherson region’s Moscow-installed administration, said in a video address. Russian servicemen standing guard near the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) on the … Continue reading Occupied Kherson Readying for Vote to Join Russia, Official Claims