Annex

Russia will hold a signing ceremony on Friday to incorporate the annexed four occupied regions of Ukraine at Kremlin, Moscow's President Vladimir Putin's ...

Proposing a new package of "biting sanctions" against Russia, von der Leyen said that Russia should not benefit from European brainpower and expertise. Therefore, we are adding a new category to be able to list individuals if they circumvent our sanctions. "We are stepping up our efforts to crackdown on circumvention of sanctions. This cap will help reduce Russia's revenues and keep global energy markets stable." The announcement of fresh sanctions was done at a press conference by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Meanwhile, Canada also said that they will not recognise Russia's attempted illegal annexation of Ukrainian territories.

The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to formally annex four territories from Ukraine on Friday, following staged referendums that were ...

The process has drawn widespread international condemnation. George's Hall for a signing ceremony to incorporate the Ukrainian lands Friday 3 p.m. Speaking to reporters Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin has summoned Russian lawmakers to the Kremlin's ornate St.

While some parts of eastern Ukraine have been under partial Russian control since 2014, other sections continue to fight back. Most residents overall have ...

What most people cared about was their financial stability and family’s overall well-being. [reported that](https://kiis.com.ua/?lang=eng&cat=reports&id=1138&page=1) in late 2021 and early 2022, less than 22% of people in the Donbas region and less than 12% in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia wanted to become part of Russia. The Kremlin has supported and armed two [thousands of civilian deaths](https://tass.com/world/1289095) in eastern Ukraine, the number of Russian sympathizers in the Donbas decreased. [85% of people in Kherson](https://kiis.com.ua/?lang=eng&cat=reports&id=1138&page=1) and 82% in Zaporizhzhia said they wanted to remain separate, according to the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology. [6.5 million](https://freedomhouse.org/country/eastern-donbas/freedom-world/2022) people before the 2022 invasion, out of a total [43 million](https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ukraine-population/) in Ukraine. [industrial output](https://www.dw.com/en/why-is-the-donbas-so-important-for-russia/a-61547512) and coal mines, [some of which](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/05/04/donbas-coal-mines-are-the-sinews-of-the-war-in-ukraine_5982385_4.html) Russia has seized control of during the war. [60% of the internally displaced Ukrainians](https://data.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/95314) are from the eastern regions. [conscript fighters in these breakaway regions](https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/02/27/stay-hidden-or-get-drafted) to fill front lines, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson have been [fighting against](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/6/ukraine-partisans-wont-win-war-but-can-wreak-havoc-analysts) Russia since the start of the war. [“Hero City” to Kherson](https://kyivindependent.com/uncategorized/zelensky-gives-the-honorary-title-hero-city-to-kharkiv-chernihiv-mariupol-kherson-hostomel-and-volnovakha) for its [fierce defense](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/ukraine-counteroffensive-battle-of-kherson/671364/) against Russian forces during the early days of the war. [more than 85%](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/moscows-proxies-occupied-ukraine-regions-report-big-votes-join-russia-2022-09-27/) of people in the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic and Donetsk People’s Republic, as well as parts of two other occupied regions in Ukraine – Kherson and Zaporizhshia – voted to become part of Russia. [a researcher](https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/departments/school-of-interdisciplinary-global-studies/people/tkulakevich.aspx) of Eastern Europe, I think it’s important to understand that people in these four regions are not a single political bloc, even though most of the people in these territories do not want to join Russia.

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Vladimir Putin will annex four regions in south-eastern Ukraine — none of which Russia fully controls — on Friday, in a substantial escalation of the ...

A woman walks past a billboard depicting Russian passport, a day after voting in four Moscow-held regions of Ukraine on referendums to become part of Russia, in ...

Security Council, the United States is working with Albania on a draft resolution condemning the “sham referenda,” calling on states not to recognize any altered status of Ukraine and compelling Russia to withdraw its troops from Ukraine. "This will keep Russian products out of the European market and deprive Russia of an additional 7 billion euros in revenue," von der Leyen told reporters in Brussels. “I want to underscore that the so-called “referenda” in the occupied regions were conducted during active armed conflict, in areas under Russian occupation, and outside Ukraine’s legal and constitutional framework,” the U.N. chief had conveyed this message to the Russians when he spoke with their U.N. Guterres’ spokesman said the U.N. “They cannot be called a genuine expression of the popular will.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to announce the annexation of four regions in Ukraine.

The event echoes Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, which also followed a discredited referendum and was heralded by a Kremlin signing followed by a ...

And this is the opposite of peace, it is a dictated peace," she said. Some 2,400 protesters have been arrested in dozens of cities and there has been an exodus of Russian men streaming across the border. "This is the opposite of free and fair elections. And our reaction to recognition of the results by Russia will be very harsh." "The territorial integrity of Ukraine will be restored. That initial annexation has never been recognised by the vast majority of the international community, and nor will this.

Russia is expected to annex four occupied regions of Ukraine at a lavish Kremlin ceremony on Friday that follows a threat by President Vladimir Putin to use ...

was a tragedy, and he has recently suggested Moscow should again extend its influence over the former Soviet region. It comes after foreign leaders critical of Russia voiced their opposition to the plan, with U.S. The four territories — Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south and Donetsk and Lugansk in the east — create a crucial land corridor between Russia and the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the annexation plans as "a dangerous escalation" that "has no place in the modern world." Putin has blamed the war in Ukraine on the West and said simmering conflicts in the former Soviet Union were the result of its collapse. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the annexations would be formalized at the ceremony and Putin would deliver a "major" speech.

Lipavsky described the pro-Russia referendums as “theater play” and insisted the regions remain “Ukrainian territory.” Armed Russian troops at went door-to-door ...

In response, tens of thousands of Russian men have left the country. “The better off and well educated are over-represented amongst those attempting to leave Russia,” the British said. “This is the opposite of free and fair elections,” Baerbock said. Ukraine’s supporters in the West have described the stage-managed referendums on living under Russian rule as a bald-faced land grab based on lies. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called an emergency meeting of the National Security and Defense Council for Friday, apparently in response to the Russian move. Peskov said the pro-Moscow administrators of those regions would sign treaties to join Russia during the ceremony at the Kremlin’s St.

Russia will annex four regions of Ukraine that its troops occupy on Friday, a spokesman for President Vladimir Putin said.

"You don't have to die in Ukraine. Non-Russian groups, mainly from the Caucasus in the south of Russia and from Siberia, are over-represented in military contingents sent to Ukraine. In a video appeal he has urged minority groups across Russia to resist the Kremlin's mobilisation effort, telling them they need not die in a "shameful war".

Vladimir Putin celebrates with the Moscow-appointed heads of four partially-occupied Ukrainian regions. 01:12.

The situation in Lyman is a bad backdrop for a celebration.” “The way that Putin speaks about Ukraine, it is clear that for him this is an existential problem. Pro-Russia officials in the occupied Donetsk region said the first newly mobilised soldiers arrived in eastern Ukraine on Friday. “Russia is demonstrating that it is ready to use any means at its disposal to achieve its strategic goals. This is the will of millions of people,” Putin said, adding that the citizens of the four occupied regions would be part of Russia “forever”. Oleg Tsaryov, a Ukrainian-born pro-Russia politician, wrote on social media: “The situation is very difficult in Lyman. Putin’s annexations are widely seen as a response to growing difficulties on the battlefield. Taken together, Russia is annexing at least 40,000 square miles of eastern and southern Ukraine, about 15% of Ukraine’s total area, equal to the size of Portugal or Serbia. “All territories illegally occupied by Russian invaders are Ukrainian land and will always be part of this sovereign nation,” she added. The United States will always honour Ukraine’s internationally recognised borders.” Russia!” with the applauding audience. Ukraine has indicated it will fight to reclaim all its lands, while western allies have previously said they would never recognise Russia’s claims on Ukraine’s territory.

Vladimir Putin on Friday declared that four provinces of Ukraine will become Russian territory based on referendums that took place this week, a move that ...

“The vote will destroy whatever chances — slim at best to begin with — exist for a political settlement between Russia and Ukraine based on mutual compromises,” added Rajan Menon, director of grand strategy at Defense Priorities, which advocates for restraint in foreign policy. He largely used the rest of his speech to air conspiracies and accusations against the West, which he claimed is waging a “hybrid-war” against Russia. “The parallels are eerie and, after decades of over-using the Hitler analogies, we finally have a case where they are apt,” said Daniel Fried, a former ambassador to Poland who is now a researcher at the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank. “The international community must unequivocally denounce this illegal land grab, and reaffirm our commitment to helping Ukraine defend itself,” said Idaho Sen. “Because this is the will of millions of people.” The truth is Russia is losing in Ukraine and their incompetent Generals are sending thousands to their deaths to please President Putin’s imperialist fantasy.” “We will rally the international community to both denounce these moves and to hold Russia accountable,” Biden said. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in addition to the “swift and severe costs” the U.S. “The choice of the people in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson, we will not discuss. Biden described Russia’s claims of annexation as “phony” and having “no legitimacy.” He also announced new sanctions that the U.S. Russia wields a veto in the U.N. “The United States condemns Russia’s fraudulent attempt today to annex sovereign Ukrainian territory,” Biden said in a statement.

Putin has gone to war he will either win or lose. Once Russia illegally annexes four territories of Ukraine, there will no longer be possible for the Kremlin to ...

Furthermore, Russia has repeatedly waved the threat of using nuclear force to have the upper hand in its war in Ukraine. What adds to the Russian nuclear threats is what a Moldovan news outlet has reported, saying Russian troops in the Moldovan breakaway region of Transnistria began drills whose scenario involves tackling radioactive contamination. The suspected sabotage of Nord Stream and nuclear threats might––according to the Kremlin––scare off Ukraine and Western nations. Tens of thousands of Russians continue to try to flee the country, fearful of being caught up in the military mobilization. A turning point came last week when Putin announced a “partial” military mobilization of Russian reservists for his war with Ukraine and planned “sham” referenda to include four Ukrainian regions in Russia. This might mark a turning point in the war––following the invasion and Putin’s announced troop mobilization.

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has moved to formally annex four Ukrainian territories, signing what he calls "accession treaties" that world ...

was the world's aggressor, leaving a history of destruction and oppression in its wake. The sanctions target government officials and leaders, as well as their family members, and officials of the Russian and Belarusian military. "The West decides who has a right to self-determination ... As part of the action, the U.S. "I want the authorities in Kyiv and their real overlords in the West to hear me: The residents of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson are becoming our citizens," Putin said. Ukraine blamed the attack on Russia. As he delivered his address, Zelenskyy stood in front of his office in his signature green t-shirt alongside his chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, and parliament chair Ruslan Stefanchuk. "Not only Ukraine's enemy, but also an enemy of life itself, humanity, law and truth." "The people made their choice," said Putin in a signing ceremony at the Kremlin's St. "The United States condemns Russia's fraudulent attempt today to annex sovereign Ukrainian territory. It's Putin's latest attempt to redraw the map of Europe at Ukraine's expense. "And that choice won't be betrayed" by Russia, he said.