Russian-backed separatists in the eastern Ukraine region of Luhansk are set to hold a referendum on joining 'in the near future', prompting a severe rebuke from Ukraine who vowed a 'total' guerrilla warfare to prevent the country splitting in two.Leonid Pasechnik, the head of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, today said that it could hold a referendum 'in the nearest time' asking voters whether they support making the region part of Russia.The referendum could mark a precursor to the formal annexation of more Ukrainian territory by Russia, as it did in Crimea after Russia seized the Ukrainian peninsula in 2014.
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