Russia has confirmed that it will formally annex parts of Ukraine. 9News
will attend a ceremony on Friday at 15:00 local time in the Kremlin's St. George's Hall when four regions of Ukraine will be officially folded into Russia, spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
The United States and its Western allies have sharply condemned the votes as "sham" and vowed never to recognise their results. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Thursday joined other Western officials in denouncing the votes. Armed troops had gone door-to-door with election officials to collect ballots in five days of voting. The suspiciously high margins in favour were characterised as a land grab by an increasingly cornered Russian leadership after embarrassing military losses in Ukraine.
"The rescuers have taken her from under the rubble, she was asleep when the Russian missile hit," said local administrator Valentyn Reznichenko.
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