PARIS — The Ukrainian government clapped back at French presidential hopeful Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Monday after the far-left leader said a vote could settle territorial disputes. “‘Referendums’ under occupation are a tool of annexation, not an expression of the people’s will. No civilised, democratic country would ever accept this for its own borders, so it should not be proposed to Ukrainians,” the foreign ministry’s spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi posted on X . He added that Ukraine previously voted in 1991, and Russia is now looking to change borders with a war.
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