🗳The referendums on joining Russia kick off in the DPR, LPR, and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions on Friday.

The five-day vote will come to an end on 27 September. For security reasons, for the first four days, election commission officials will go from door-to-door to collect the votes. On the final day, people will have a chance to vote at polling stations.

❓In the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions voters are being asked: "Are you in favor of [the region’s] secession from Ukraine, the formation of an independent state by the region and its joining the Russian Federation as a subject?" And in the DPR and LPR, the question is: "Do you want to join Russia as a subject of the federation?"

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📹 Russia's Ministry of Defense has published footage showing how Russian airborne units repelled the attack of 25 Ukrainian armored vehicles

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"There are no big fish left" in Russia to slap with sanctions, online newspaper, the EUobserver reported, citing EU sources.

One of the sources added that the EU "already has the full collection of oligarchs and everyone in the political and defense establishments"

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📹 Russian sappers are checking referendum polling stations in the LPR, Russia's Ministry of Defense shows

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🇿🇦 South Africa has shown off its Milkor 380 reconnaissance and strike drone at the Africa Aerospace and Defense 2022 exhibition in Pretoria. The UAV is expected to be a "competitor of Bayraktar"

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🇮🇳🇷🇺🇨🇳 A joint statement released after the meeting said that “comprehensive reform” of the UN, including the Security Council, was needed to make the global institution more representative, effective and efficient to deal with present global challenges.

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The head of the DPR Denis Pushilin has voted on a referendum

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❗Sputnik explains: What are the DPR, LPR, and Kherson & Zaporozhye regions, which are holding historic referendums on joining Russia?

🇷🇺 Latest statements of Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov:

▪The US is incapable of negotiating and is directly pushing Kiev to transfer military operations to the territory of Russia, using nuclear blackmail;

▪Moscow does not threaten anyone with nuclear weapons, but warns of the risk of interference in the special military operation;

▪Open confrontation with the US and NATO is not in the interest of Russia, we hope that the Biden administration understands the risks of escalation around Ukraine

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“The worst thing you can do if you want to know anything about Ukraine is to read or listen to US corporate media,” Margaret Kimberley, editor and senior columnist at Black Agenda Report, says, while answering a question about the coverage of the situation in Ukraine by the American media.

💬 "You can read Black Agenda Report, you can read other media that are called alternative, although I don't like that term. But it's terrible that you have to, on your own, look for sources of information, but you do. You're very, very much misinformed if you read The New York Times about the situation in Ukraine"

🎧 Listen to more of Margaret Kimberley’s views on our podcast By Any Means Necessary

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Thousands of people rally in Moscow in support of referendums in Donbass, Zaporozhye, and Kherson

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