Russia has said the country will take action if NATO moves nuclear forces near its border, according to reports.
A soldier inspects a damaged classroom on May 8, 2022, in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine. Most of the region remains Russian occupied.A request from authorities in Kherson, Ukraine, to join the Russian Federation is part of Moscow's strategy to use rigged votes to place Ukrainian regions under Russian control, the U.K. Defence Ministry said Saturday.
Russia will "almost certainly" manipulate the results of any referendum held in Kherson to decide whether to leave Ukraine, the Defence Ministry said.Kherson lies on the Dnipro River near the Black Sea, only about 60 miles from Crimea, which Russia took over the last time it invaded Ukraine in 2014.
"This will depend, unfortunately, not only on our people, who are already giving their maximum," he said in his nightly video address to the nation. "This will depend on our partners, on European countries, on the entire free world." "And for what? So that the Lenin statue can stand for a bit longer in temporarily occupied Genichesk? There is and can be no other result for Russia."
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