_Here’s a roundup of the top stories in Europe this week._This week, Vladimir Putin announced plans to order a partial mobilisation of reserved army forces and organise referendums in the country’s occupied territories. Western leaders fear Putin will use the referendums as an excuse to claim Ukraine’s eastern and southern fronts as integral parts of Russia, mirroring the 2014 illegal annexation of Crimea. At the same time, the Russian leader intends to bring up to 300,000 reserved forces into the army through a decree of partial mobilisation, a move that experts see as a reaction to a counter…