President Putin is set to announce the official annexation of four Ukrainian territories the Kremlin claims voted to join Russia in its sham referendum.
CNBC has not been able to independently verify the details. Images posted by Starukh and others on social media show disturbing scenes of burnt cars and bodies on the road.
The referendum's results, which have been rejected by much of the international community, showed large majorities of each territory — Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia — voting to join the Russian Federation. The regions, making up the country's eastern and southern flanks, form roughly 15% of Ukraine's territory.Government spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Putin will sign accession documents at the Kremlin and then deliver a speech.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken slammed Russia's"attempt at a land grab in Ukraine" and said that the U.S. will never recognize the results of the Kremlin's"sham referenda." "This spectacle conducted by Russia's proxies is illegitimate and violates international law," he added.The Kremlin has previously said that the results of the referendums held in four regions of Ukraine are legitimate.'It can still be stopped,' Zelenskyy says of Russian attempts to annex parts of UkraineUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Lviv, Ukraine on August 18, 2022.
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