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Russian proxies will ask Putin to annex Kherson Oblast.

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Kirill Stremousov, a leader of the Kremlin's proxies in Ukraine's Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast, said there won’t be any referendum in Kherson to make it a so-called “people’s republic", Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported. Instead, Russian proxies in Kherson are seeking outright annexation.

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