Children watch as workers clean up after a rocket strike on a house in Kramatorsk, in Donetsk region
(Picture: AP)The Kremlin is likely to be pressing ahead with planning a staged referendum in the Donbas region of Ukraine on joining Russia, the UK said on Monday.
Vladimir Putin’s forces and their allies control swathes of eastern Ukraine and reports have emerged in recent weeks that Moscow is planning to stage referendums in captured areas over becoming part of Russia.
