Ukraine Recap: Blinken Condemns Russia's 'Sham Elections'.

Ukraine Recap: Blinken Condemns Russia's "Sham Elections" (Bloomberg) -- The US condemns "sham elections" being held by Russia this weekend in occupied areas of Ukraine, a year after Moscow staged similarly fake referenda "and purported to annex Ukraine's Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk oblasts", Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. "The Kremlin hopes these pre-determined, fabricated results will strengthen Russia's illegitimate claims to the parts of Ukraine it occupies, but this is nothing more than a propaganda exercise", Blinken said. [Extracted from the article]

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