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209th day of the war
Scholz: “Sham referendums” in eastern Ukraine are not accepted – Duma deputy denies possible general mobilization
Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
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Selenskyj warns speed in counter-offensive +++ Separatist areas want quick connection to Russia +++ The news about Russia’s war in Ukraine in star-Live blog.
The United Nations General Assembly is meeting in New York from today. Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be there. On the other hand, Ukraine is taking its complaint about the Russian war of aggression to the highest stage of world public opinion. It is an important day and he is preparing his subsequent speech via video link, said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the beginning of the UN general debate. “There will be important signals from our state,” he announced in a speech distributed from Kyiv on Monday evening.
The Ukrainian head of state is scheduled to speak on Wednesday – exceptionally via video link instead of at the lectern of the General Assembly. Russia had tried to only allow Zelenskyj to speak in the foreseeable, unlikely event that he would have come to New York in person. The member states rejected this condition with a majority, so that Zelenskyj is now involved.
In the battle, the Ukrainian President urges the counter-offensive to speed up in order to establish normal structures as quickly as possible. On the other hand, the separatist areas of Donetsk and Luhansk are calling for a referendum with the aim of being annexed to Russia as quickly as possible.
The events of the 209th day of the war in star-Live blog.
Day 209 of the war in Ukraine
Chapter
Duma deputy denies possible general mobilization
Putin’s address to the nation may have been postponed
Scholz condemns “sham referendums” as unacceptable
Occupied territories in eastern Ukraine announce referendums on annexation to Russia
Medvedev speaks of “geopolitical transformation in the world”
British intelligence: Russia withdraws submarines from Crimea
Yannik Schuller
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Duma deputy denies possible general mobilization
Yannik Schuller
“There will be no general mobilization,” says Andrei Kartapalov, head of the Defense Committee in the State Duma. in an interview with “Parlamentskaya Gazeta”. According to him, the most recent tightening of the law was intended more to secure Russia’s ability to defend itself in the long term.
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Yannik Schuller
“These illegal ‘votes’ can under no circumstances be considered an expression of the free will of the people living in these regions under constant military threat and intimidation from Russia,” Borrell wrote in a statement. Russia and everyone involved in the voting and other violations of international law must be held accountable. Additional “restrictive measures” are also being considered, Borrell said.
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Putin’s address to the nation may have been postponed
Yannik Schuller
Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of state broadcaster RT, urged her followers at around 10:30 p.m. Moscow time: “Go to bed.” Other pro-Kremlin bloggers, according to the BBC, have also posted similar messages on the social media app Telegram.
Originally, the media had expected the Kremlin chief at 8 p.m. (7 p.m. in Germany).
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Yannik Schuller
Of the Kremlin boss should support the region’s accession to Russiawrites head of administration Vladimir balance in a post on Telegram. He speaks of a “decision of the citizens of the Kherson region for self-determination and accession to the Russian Federation”.
Donetsk separatist leader Denis Pushilin has also asked Putin to admit the region: “This event will restore historical justice,” he claims.
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Tim Schulze
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Tim Schulze
the United States condemn the announced mock referendums in Ukraine. “We will never recognize this area as anything other than a part of Ukraine. We unequivocally reject Russia’s actions,” said US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, in Washington.
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Tim Schulze
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also speaks those announced by Russia and the Russian occupation authorities votes in the occupied territories in the east and south of Ukraine legitimacy. At the same time, the referendums are a “further escalation of Putin’s war” against Ukraine, the Norwegian writes on Twitter.
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Scholz condemns “sham referendums” as unacceptable
Tim Schulze
Meanwhile, there are reports that the Russian President Wladimir Putin in the evening a “historical” speech to hold onto the nation. This has not yet been officially confirmed.
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The head of the presidential office in Kyiv, Andriy Yermak, speaks of “naive blackmail” and “fear mongering”. “This is what the fear of crushing (the Russian troops) looks like. The enemy is afraid and manipulates in a primitive way,” writes the 50-year-old on the Telegram news channel.
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Given the finds of numerous bodies in Ukraine UN Secretary-General António Guterres is concerned. “The latest reports about burial sites in Izyum are extremely worrying,” he said at the start of the 77th general debate at the UN General Assembly. Overall, the war had led to extensive destruction with massive violations of human rights and international humanitarian law.
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In the occupied part of southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region The Russian military administration also wants this, as in Luhansk, Donetsk and Cherson vote on joining Russia to let. According to the head of the military administration, Vladimir Rogov, the “referendum” will only take place in the parts of Zaporizhia controlled by Moscow. Everything is ready, “in the next few days” can be voted on, says Rogow.
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