The resolution at the UN Security Council against the Russian "farce" referendums and the annexation of Ukrainian territories was rejected due to the veto of Moscow, while China abstained along with Brazil, India and Gabon.
Ten votes in favor of the motion, presented by the US and Albania ".
The US military in Europe is ready for any eventuality, "US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said in a press briefing." We do not see any imminent threats to Moscow's use of nuclear weapons at the moment. but we continue to monitor the situation very seriously, "Sullivan said." On NATO the United States has an open door policy, but for the moment we support Kiev in defending its territory, "Sullivan said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin asked for a minute of silence for what he called the "heroes" fighting in Ukraine and for the "
victims of the terrorist actions in Kiev
." "I want them to hear me in Kiev, to hear me in the West:
the people living in Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia become our citizens forever
, "Putin said, opening the signing ceremony of the annexation treaties in Moscow of the four Ukrainian regions.
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The Ukrainian president in a video: "The annexation is a farce. The entire territory of our country will be freed from the enemy, the enemy not only of Ukraine, but of life itself, of humanity, of the law and of truth" .
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Deaf to the protests of the international community, Vladimir Putin has decided to proceed with the annexation of the four Ukrainian territories where the referendums were held that the Western chancelleries have defined as "farces".
The agreements will be signed today with a ceremony in the Kremlin's Hall of St George with the heads of the four entities, and will be accompanied by a popular celebration on Red Square.
A program that contrasts with the scenes of the thousands of Russians fleeing the country to escape the possible call to arms.
The Baltic countries and Poland have already closed their borders to the Russians for weeks, and Finland has now joined them and Norway is ready.
But the exodus continues through the southern borders, especially with Georgia and Kazakhstan, and, further east, with Mongolia.
Yet nothing seems to be able to distract the Kremlin from its plans, to be implemented also through the partial mobilization declared on 21 September.
The first units of the recalled reservists, the Ministry of Defense said, have already been constituted and will be used to "control the liberated territories" in Ukraine.
First of all, therefore, the areas of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, which are preparing to become part of the Federation and which Moscow will therefore defend as its own territory.
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Under the walls of the Kremlin a huge stage was set up for the celebrations in the square, with the inscription 'Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Russia, together forever', in the St. George's hall preparations for the signing of the act of accession and for a speech by the president that his spokesman has already announced as "full-bodied".
It is not difficult to predict its content.
We had a taste yesterday, when Putin spoke by videoconference at a meeting of the heads of the security and intelligence services of the nine former Soviet republics, now members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CSI).
The president re-proposed the scenario that sees Western countries ("our geopolitical opponents" he defined them) committed to sowing chaos in the former Soviet space "
"Italy strongly condemns the illegal and unacceptable annexation by Russia of the four Ukrainian regions
of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and reiterates its full support for the sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of Ukraine".
This is the tweet from the Farnesina
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