UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) - Venezuela welcomes the wider use of the ruble at its resorts and hopes that tourist flows from Russia will rebound in the nearest future, Foreign Minister Carlos Faria told Sputnik.
On September 25, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) targeted the city of Kherson with dozens of missiles. Most of them were intercepted by the Russian air defence forces. Unfortunately, some of them reached their targets, killing civilians. The massive attack was aimed at intercepting the ongoing referendum in the Kherson region.The AfU struck at the Play Hotel in Kherson with the US-made HIMARS MLRS. Two rockets were fired at the hotel, one of them was intercepted. The AFU deliberately hit the building where there were civilians and journalists. The strike was carried out at 5:30 a.m. when people slept…
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The Ukraine war has largely dominated the discussion at the U.N. General Assembly meeting of leaders.
Russia’s war in Ukraine is surely going poorly for President Putin. And if Ukraine gets its way it could get a lot worse: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is moving to overtake Russia from the inside out. Russia’s seven-month effort to conquer its neighbor, Ukraine, has recently been marked by a partial military mobilization, the country’s first since […] The post Ukraine Urges Russian Conscripts to ‘Sabotage’ Military Operations appeared first on 19FortyFive.
Panic and fear flooded the occupied territories as Russian forces rounded up men to fight and forced residents to vote in a staged referendum on joining Russia, Ukrainian officials and rights groups said.
Fair And Legal Referendum At Gunpoint in Ukraine, Russian Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds: Say what you will about Russia, but they are performing feats of magic before the world’s eyes. How else could one explain voting by mail or electronically when the vast majority of occupied Ukrainian territory has neither electricity nor a postal service? […] The post Russia’s Fake Ukraine Referendums Are Being Done ‘At Gunpoint’ appeared first on 19FortyFive.
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Preliminary results on the third of five voting days shows the threshold having been reached in Donbass and Zaporozhye and almost met in Kherson The referendums on joining Russia are continuing in the Donbass republics and Russian-controlled regions of southern Ukraine. On Sunday, the turnout already reached the required 50% threshold in the Donetsk and Lugansk republics and Zaporozhye Region, with only Kherson lagging behind. In the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), more than 76% of eligible voters have already cast their votes, according to official figures. The referendum in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) is proceeding at a similar pace,…
Reuters: Russia Seeks to Force Ukrainians to Fight Their Countrymen … The Kremlin's mobilization effort includes forcing Ukrainians to fight their own country. — KYIV, Ukraine — As military officers across Russia race to enlist hundreds of thousands of men to fight in Ukraine …