KYIV: 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.
Forcing people in these territories to fill out some papers at the barrel of a gun is yet another Russian crime in the course of its aggression against Ukraine, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said, adding that the balloting was a propaganda show and null and worthless. The ballot was falsified and the outcome implausibly claimed that residents had agreed to rule from Moscow, the Washington-based think tank Institute for the Study of War said.
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