Russia rejected any attempt at the UN to condemn its annexation of Ukrainian lands, stressing that it would forever remain Russia, and Russian Ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebenzia sent a message to UN member states, in which he believed that any resolution prepared by the West and approved by the UN General Assembly, condemns “referenda”. “annexations” of Ukrainian regions, while Nebenzya said: “Confidentiality is necessary because pressure from the West makes it very difficult to publicly express positions. This is happening, as Russian ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov said: His country has assured the Americans that Crimea and the territories are an integral part of Russia, and that Ukraine is targeting Russian lands with American weapons, which, as he puts it, “Rejected”, stressing that Russia will defend Crimea and new lands, and Putin signed a decree the day before, according to which Russia officially acquired the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine. In the meantime, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, announced that he was going to Geneva to discuss the creation of a safe zone around the nuclear power plant, and called this issue “more urgent than ever”, and despite the retreat of his forces, Vladimir Putin also signed annexation law of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye, which he partially occupied, and expected stability in Lu Ghanaian and Donetsk (east), as well as Zaporizhia and Kherson (south) regions, stressed at a meeting with a number of teachers said on state television that Moscow has great respect for the Ukrainian people, despite the current situation, referring to the outbreak of hostilities since February last year, he also saw that “the liberation of new lands was made possible thanks to the Russian army”, as he put it, while it was unclear whether he planned to control other Ukrainian regions, and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed earlier that “lands which were annexed by His country, a few days ago, in Ukraine, will remain Russian.” forever and ever.”
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Russian bombardment of the Zaporozhye region
Oleksandr Starukh, the governor of the Zaporizhia region of Ukraine, said early yesterday morning: Russian shelling shelled the region at night, destroying several residential buildings and causing casualties. referendum districts in Kherson,” and after the Ukrainian president announced that his army “quickly and strongly” advanced in the south and recaptured “dozens” of cities from the Russians. The defense, in turn, confirmed that Kyiv had made tangible progress, and on the ground, the governor of the Kyiv region said that six drones had struck a building in Bila Tserkva, about 75 kilometers south of Kyiv. several strikes on the city caused several fires, which dozens of firefighters rushed to put out.