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Meduza: Russia seeks to annex occupied areas in Ukraine, merge them into one federal district.
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June 9, 2022 8:42 pm
Three sources close to the Kremlin told Meduza, a news outlet based in Latvia, that the federal district would be created after so-called referendums on joining Russia are held in the occupied parts of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk oblasts.
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