Russia was poised Wednesday to formally annex parts of Ukraine where occupied areas held a Kremlin-orchestrated "referendum" - denounced by Kyiv and the West as illegal and rigged-on living under Moscow's rule.
Armed troops had gone door-to-door with election officials to collect ballots in five days of voting.
The results were widely ridiculed as implausible and characterised as a land grab by an increasingly cornered Russian leadership following embarrassing military losses in Ukraine.
Moscow-installed administrations in the four regions of southern and eastern Ukraine claimed Tuesday night that residents had voted to join Russia.
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