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Watch: Zelensky says there will be no talks with Putin if Ukrainian land is annexed

Ukraine’s president has warned that Russia’s “sham referendums” and attempts to annex Ukrainian territory rule out any talks with Moscow as long as Vladimir Putin remains president. Speaking at a meeting of the UN Security Council, Mr Zelensky urged the countries present to suspend Russia’s membership of the organisation. The…

Evening Standard

Kremlin dismisses 'stupid' claims Russia attacked Nord Stream

The Kremlin on Wednesday said claims that Russia was somehow behind a possible attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines were stupid, adding that the United States had opposed the pipelines and its companies had made big profits supplying gas to Europe.

Reuters

Ukraine’s President: No Talks with Putin If Its Land Annexed

Ukraine’s president warned Tuesday that Russia’s just concluded “sham referendums” and attempts to annex Ukrainian territory rule out any talks with Moscow as long as Vladimir Putin remains president, and called for Russia’s “complete isolation” and tough new global sanctions.

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Will Russia annex the occupied Ukrainian territories this week?

Now Moscow has the ‘results’ it wanted from its fake referendums, Putin and the west are considering next steps

The Guardian - UK

Putin raises gas-cutoff threat as he moves to annex Ukraine regions

Russia threatened to cut off the last gas pipeline to Ukraine’s European allies and moved to annex a large chunk of Ukrainian territory amid a string of military setbacks in the seven-month-long war.

Tribune News Service

Ukraine's president: No talks with Putin if its land annexed

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is warning that Russia’s just concluded “sham referendums” and attempts to annex Ukrainian territory rule out any talks with Moscow as long as Vladimir Putin remains president

The Independent UK

Kremlin claims victory in controversial Ukraine referendums set to pave way for annexation

Pro-Moscow officials say residents in four occupied areas of Ukraine have voted to join Russia in a Kremlin-orchestrated vote that has been dismissed by the US and its Western allies as illegitimate.

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Moscow patriarch: Russian war dead have their sins forgiven

The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church says Russian soldiers who die in the line of duty in Ukraine have all of their sins forgiven

The Independent UK

Ukrainian men flee Russian-held areas amid annexation votes

Although he exceeds draft age, Dmytro Rossuzhday was certain he would be press ganged into Moscow-backed Ukrainian rebel forces when his bus was stopped at the last checkpoint of the Russian-held part of Zaporizhzhia province.

Reuters

As Putin goes for broke: What next after Ukraine annexation referendums?

What happens when there is that knock at the door? Moscow's hastily-organised referendums in occupied parts of Ukraine – complete with house-to-house searches of ballot recipients – take the concept of "get out the vote" to a whole new level. We ask about turnout numbers that already beggar belief and…

France 24

Ukraine says it won't be swayed by Russian nuclear threats, annexation votes

Ukraine will not be swayed by any nuclear threats from Moscow or annexation votes held on its territory and will press ahead with its plan to wrest back all its occupied land from Russia, a Ukrainian presidential adviser said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Occupied regions of Ukraine vote to join Russia in staged referendums

The so-called referendums — which Ukraine, the U.S. and others have denounced as shams — are widely viewed as an initial Kremlin move toward formal Russian annexation of the territories.

WEKU

Vote in Ukraine’s Russia-Held Areas Stokes Tension with West

Kremlin-orchestrated referendums that are expected to serve as a pretext for Moscow to annex Russian-held regions of Ukraine concluded Tuesday as the preordained outcome of the votes heightened tension between Russia and the West. Moscow-backed officials in the four occupied regions in southern and eastern Ukraine said polls closed Tuesday…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Number of Russians crossing into EU up by 30%, border agency says

The number of Russians entering the EU has jumped following a partial mobilisation ordered by Moscow, and illegal crossings are likely to increase should Russia decide to close the border for potential conscripts, EU border agency Frontex said on Tuesday.

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Al Jazeera

Russians flock to Georgia, again, as Putin escalates war

New waves of Russians have arrived in Georgia, desperate to avoid joining troops in Ukraine.

The Independent UK

First results from ‘sham’ Ukraine referendums show 96% want to join Russia

Russia warned it could resort to nuclear weapons to defend what it claimed as its own territory, including newly acquired lands

Reuters

Ukraine urges EU to impose economic sanctions on Russia over annexation votes

Ukraine urged the European Union on Tuesday to impose economic sanctions on Russia to punish it for staging annexation votes in four occupied regions, and said the moves by Moscow would not change Ukraine's actions on the battlefield.

The Guardian - UK

Putin’s regime may fall – but what would come next?

There is an opportunity to negotiate a way back from the brink, says Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

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The Independent UK

Russia to medevac wounded in school shooting to Moscow

Russia's health minister says 15 people wounded in a school shooting in central Russia will be medevaced to Moscow for further treatment a day after a gunman killed 17 people and wounded 24 others

The Independent UK

Japan summons Russian ambassador after its diplomat is ‘brutally interrogated’ in Moscow

Russia says the diplomat was caught red-handed carrying out espionage activities

Al Jazeera

Ukraine war enters new phase as annexation votes draw to close

Russian media report high turnout in occupied regions as Kyiv promises to crack down on ‘traitors’ who assist votes.

Reuters

Kazakhstan struggles to accommodate Russians fleeing war

Kazakhstan is struggling to accommodate tens of thousands of Russians who have fled their homeland since Moscow announced a military mobilisation last week, officials say, but the Almaty government has no plans to close its border.

The Independent UK

Why has Russia invaded Ukraine and what does Putin want?

Vladimir Putin’s military assault continues in face of near-unanimous international condemnation

Asharq Al-Awsat

The Four Kremlin-held Ukraine Regions Voting on Annexation

Four regions of Ukraine that are mostly controlled by Russian forces are voting in polls that close Tuesday on whether or not to ask Russia to annex them. Kyiv and its allies have criticized the ballots as a "sham" and vowed not to recognize the results.

Reuters

Medvedev raises spectre of Russian nuclear strike on Ukraine

An ally of President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday outlined the scenario of a nuclear strike on Ukraine, saying that the U.S.-led NATO military alliance would be too scared of a 'nuclear apocalypse' to directly enter the conflict in reponse.

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