MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian-installed administrator of Ukraine’s Luhansk region said on Wednesday that he had formally asked President Vladimir Putin to incorporate the region into Russia, following a hastily organised referendum that the West has denounced as an illegitimate sham.
“Taking into account the fact that the population of the republic approved the decision in the referendum, I ask you to consider the issue of Luhansk People’s Republic becoming a part of Russia as a subject of the Russian Federation,” separatist leader Leonid Pasechnik said.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
