May 11 (UPI) -- Russian-appointed authorities in the Ukrainian city of Kherson announced Wednesday that they plan to seek annexation from Moscow amid its invasion of the country.
Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the military administration Russia put in place to run Kherson in April after it occupied the city a month earlier, called for the city to be annexed, while adding that no plans exist to create a separate republic like those sought in the eastern Donbas region.