BBCNEWS BBC News July 7, 2024
these are the four areas where voting is being held. they include occupied parts of luhansk and donetsk in the east, and zaporizhzhia and kherson in the south and cover around 15% of ukraine's territory. the so—called referendums have been widely condemned. president biden described them as a sham and a false pretext to try to illegally annex parts of ukraine. our correspondentjames waterhouse reports from kyiv. russia's version of their so—called referendums — a free and fair democratic process where ukrainians in kherson decide whether they want tojoin russia. but, on the sam...