🇮🇳🇷🇺🇨🇳 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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🎥 Vladimir Saldo, the head of the Kherson, region has voted in the referendum

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❗Experts comment on the referendums currently taking place in the liberated territories:

▪"We expect the referendum participants will vote in favor of joining Russia. I do not rule out that all this tension will end after the referendum."
🇮🇷Mehdi Khorsand, head of the Department of Economic Diplomacy of Tehran Municipality and expert on Eurasia

▪“Today the responsibility lies with the West. The EU could put pressure on Kiev to negotiate. However, the Western countries are doing the opposite, trying to derail the negotiating efforts.”
🇦🇷Marcelo Montes, political scientist

▪“We in Slovakia know who Bandera is and how our people were afraid of him in the post-war period. Returning to the past is always a great misfortune. The West does not think rationally today.”
🇸🇰Andrej Danko, chairman of the Slovak National Party

▪“The desire to hold a referendum and become part of Russia is absolutely normal and natural. Residents of these regions will have an opportunity to once again say that they no longer want to live in conditions of oppression by the Ukrainian authorities. This is their right, their choice of a historical path, and no one should interfere with them.”
🇰🇼Yusuf Mullah, crisis management expert

▪“Russia will finally correct the historical mistake that was made during the collapse of the USSR. Finally, these territories will return home. We have no doubt that Russia will achieve all the goals of the special operation.”
🇸🇾Muhammed Danura, political scientist and strategic expert

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🇷🇺Russian FM Sergey Lavrov held talks on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly with Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco Embaló, the President of 🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau.

In London, a climate change protester set himself on fire on a tennis court at the Laver Cup on Roger Federer's last day as a professional player.

The man was reportedly protesting against the use of private jets in the UK, which burn a lot of fuel.

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"We are following your statements and comments", - said Russian FM Lavrov to Serbian President Vucic in Russian at their bilateral meeting. Vucic recently warned about a possibility of a global conflict caused by situation in Ukraine.

Find out in this Sputnik video what residents of the liberated territories think about the historic event and what the ballot for the referendum on joining Russia looks like

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🇷🇺 About 50,000 people attended the rally in Moscow in support of the referendums, police said

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