On September 4, the Ukrainian Armed Forces liberated eight settlements of the Beryslav district of the Kherson region. In total, as of October 4, the Ukrainian military has already liberated 1534 settlements in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, and Kherson regions. As of yesterday, Ukraine liberated 8 more of the settlements in the Kherson region.

On September 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the ‘accession to the Russian Federation’ of the occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions. Putin’s speech aimed to underline the threat from the West that wants to colonize Russia, ‘exterminate ethnic groups’ and start ‘manhunting’ and the current crises are the results of the destroying policies of ‘Anglo-Saxons’.

On September 28, the Russian occupation authorities in the partially occupied Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions appealed to the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to consider the issue of joining the captured territories of Ukraine to the Russian Federation. Russian authorities implausibly claimed that each sham referendum received between 87 and 99% approval from Ukrainian residents.

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September 27 marked the end of voting in so-called referendums in the four occupied regions of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin could announce the annexation of occupied regions within a few days, the UK’s defence ministry said. Meanwhile,  Kazakhstan, one of Russia’s close ex-Soviet partners, will not recognise the possible annexation of Ukraine’s eastern regions by Russia through referendums held there, Reuters reported.

Prepared by Sofia Oliynyk, Maryana Zaviyska, Anna Dovha Photo: Zelenskyi Official telegram channel Pseudo-referenda. On September 23, representatives of the … More

On September 21, an exchange of Ukrainian prisoners of war took place. As a result of the exchange, Ukraine returned 215 Ukrainian defenders, including 108 soldiers of the ‘Azov’ regiment. 200 of them were exchanged for Viktor Medvedchuk. According to the agreements, until the end of the war, 5 commanders of the Azov regiment will remain in Turkey under Erdogan’s protectorate.

Photo: Efrem Lukatsky Fact-sheet as of August 2022 Ukraine authorities estimate that due to Russia’s military aggression, 900 protected natural … More

In a video address on September 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a partial mobilization. It will primarily target the Russian Armed Forces’ reserve personnel. ‘Mobilization measures will begin today,’ Putin said.

Prepared by Sofia Oliynyk, Maryana Zaviyska, Anna Dovha Photo: Kostiantyn Liberov and Vlada Liberova Human rights violations. As of September … More