German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Russian plans to hold “sham referendums” in areas of Ukraine occupied by Moscow’s force will not be accepted. Scholz said the referendums that Moscow is planning to stage in several Ukrainian regions on becoming annexed to Russia as contrary to international law. It was “very, very clear that these sham referendums cannot be accepted, that they are not covered by international law and by the understandings that the world community has found,” Scholz said on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. “This is all just an attempt at imperialist aggre…