News about referendums, Ukraine, and Russia

Two Russian servicemen have been detained in the occupied Kherson Region: they killed 5 people Among those killed were two Russian military officers, two civilians and a collaborator Lyubov Tymchak, who headed the village of Abrikosovka under the Russian occupation. It is… pic.twitter.com/M1SNrri3xL

Here are today's control-of-terrain maps of #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine from @TheStudyofWar and @criticalthreats. 🧵(1/3) pic.twitter.com/yps2bKqQ3w

The seizure of Chasiv Yar would allow Russia to threaten larger, strategically significant towns — Kostiantynivka, Sloviansk, & Druzkhivka — that together form the fortress wall of Ukraine’s main defense of the Donetsk region, @georgewbarros tells @AP isw.pub/3xKd3PC

Mr. Ivan, 88 years old, left the occupied part of Ocheretyne, Donetsk region, on his own in order not to receive Russian citizenship. He walked all night and was under shelling to reach the territory controlled by Ukraine. Volunteers met him on the road and took him to a safe… pic.twitter.com/5YG6sc1z5E