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Following the annexation referendums in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, the Russian military-civilian administrations of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia proclaimed independence as an intermediate step for Russian annexation. [27] [failed verification] The day after the referendums were held, the KMCA proclaimed the independence of the 'Kherson region'.
Novorossiya or New Russia, [a] also referred to as the Union of People's Republics, [b] was a project [1] [2] for a confederation between the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) in Eastern Ukraine, both of which were under the control of pro-Russian separatists.
On 30 September, Putin signed treaties with the Russian-appointed heads of the DPR, LPR, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions to be integrated into Russia, [40] and their annexation was approved by the Russian constitutional court and ratified by the Russian Federation Council, although the newly claimed borders of the Russian Federation are yet ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared on Friday the annexation of four Russian-controlled territories in Ukraine: Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. (Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/Kremlin ...
Biden sharply denounced Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian territories, a widely-condemned move that was formalized in a Kremlin ceremony on Friday afternoon.
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The name Novorossiya, which means New Russia, entered official usage in 1764, after the Russian Empire conquered the Crimean Khanate, and annexed its territories, [2] when Novorossiya Governorate (or Province) was founded.
Map of the oblasts of Ukraine.Russia had control of Crimea and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk (the striped areas) prior to the 2022 invasion. This page provides information on the most recently known control of localities in Ukraine during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014 and escalated with the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.