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Russia on Friday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning Moscow's annexation of four Ukrainian territories. China, India and Brazil abstained from the vote, which came hours after President Vladimir Putin signed a decree incorporating four Ukrainian regions – Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk – into Russia. Read about the…

Volodymyr Zelenskiy makes the announcement hours after Russia declares annexation of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk

Vladimir Putin will attend a ceremony in the Kremlin

Moscow will hold a celebratory concert in Red Square on Friday, as West says it will not recognise annexation

President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned Russia of a ‘very harsh’ response if Moscow goes ahead with annexations

Russia has confirmed it will formally annex parts of Ukraine where occupied areas held a Kremlin-orchestrated “referendum” on living under Moscow’s rule that the Ukrainian government and the West denounced as illegal and rigged

Russian media said despot Vladimir Putin will sign four accession treaties, which will annexe parts of Ukraine currently held by the Kremlin's troops

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.

The so-called “partial mobilization” announced by Vladimir Putin last week has changed the character of the Ukraine war for Russians in a matter of days. And for all the ensuing scenes of disarray and unrest within Russia, the mobilization’s impact will soon change the character of the war for Ukrainians,…