Zelenskiy vows to liberate all of Ukraine as Russian ‘vote’ continues

Reports suggest local population in occupied areas has overwhelmingly boycotted Kremlin's referendum

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Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has vowed to liberate the entire country as Russia pressed on with its supposed referendum in occupied areas of Ukraine and so-called election workers accompanied by masked gunmen knocked on doors to get people to vote.

Zelenskiy said Ukraine's armed forces would throw the Russian forces out and retaliate against every strike of the aggressor". He pledged that Ukraine's armed forces would regain control of the southern Kherson region and the eastern Donbas, which includes Luhansk province and Crimea.