US official cites Russian ‘laboratory of horrors’ and possible ‘sham referendum’ in Ukraine

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While much of the fighting in Ukraine is concentrated in the city of Sievierodonetsk, one U.S. official is highlighting the situation in the nearby city of Kherson, near the Crimean Peninsula, for its depravity.

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