Referendums begin in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian oblasts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia and the separatist republics of Donetsk and Luhansk on whether to join Russia, in what Ukraine and other countries consider to be "sham" referendums. (AFP via Barron's) 2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine2022 Russian invasion of UkraineRusso-Ukrainian War link embed save