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Putin signs 'accession treaties' illegally claiming parts of Ukraine; Zelenskiy applies for Ukraine to join Nato; Russians hit civilian convoy, ...

The surrender of Russia’s garrison in Lyman [would be a humiliation for the Kremlin,](https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/sep/30/russia-ukraine-war-live-news-biden-and-zelenskiy-reject-expected-annexations-ahead-of-putin-speech?page=with:block-6336ccef8f0883d28b585162#block-6336ccef8f0883d28b585162)at a time when it is claiming that the entire Donetsk region including areas under Ukrainian government control is a part of Russia “forever”. [Russia](https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia)take any action that suggests it is contemplating the use of nuclear weapons, according to the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken. [said people in the regions had made a choice](https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/sep/30/russia-ukraine-war-live-news-biden-and-zelenskiy-reject-expected-annexations-ahead-of-putin-speech?page=with:block-633715e48f086bb4a78ebf54#block-633715e48f086bb4a78ebf54)to rejoin their “historic motherland”. [the largest forcible takeover of territory in Europe since the second world war.](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/30/putin-russia-war-annexes-ukraine-regions)After signing the treaties, the Russian-installed heads of the four regions [gathered around Putin, linking hands and joining chants of “Russia! The US Congress also approved $12.3bn in aid on Friday to Ukraine. More than 1,000 people and firms connected to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are Ukrainian and Russian military bloggers said that Russian forces together with local “Luhansk People’s Republic” fighters Russia’s move was “the largest attempted annexation of European territory by force since the second world war”, Stoltenberg said, adding that Putin has signed a decree on routine autumn conscription, the Kyiv Independent reports. The attack on Friday morning hit people waiting in cars in Zaporizhzhia city to cross into Russian-occupied territory so they could bring family members back across the frontlines. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters Russia would “de jure” incorporate parts of Ukraine which are not under the control of Russian forces. Speaking at a televised patriotic pop concert, the Russian leader

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the formal annexation of four regions of Ukraine in a speech on Friday. Putin and leaders of the four regions ...

This is contrary to the very nature of man, truth, freedom and justice.” But we will not discuss the choice of the people in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson. “The West … “Sanctions were not enough for the Anglo-Saxons: they moved on to sabotage. “I want the Kyiv authorities and their real masters in the West to hear me so that they remember this. People living in Luhansk and Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhia are becoming our citizens.

Amid patriotic pageantry hyped up by the fervor of war, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday proclaimed the annexation of four Ukrainian regions, ...

President Volodymyr Zelensky also said Friday that Ukraine is [applying for “accelerated ascension” into NATO](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/30/ukraine-application-nato-russia-war/?itid=lb_war-in-ukraine-what-you-need-to-know_4), in an apparent answer to the annexations. 21 to call up as many as [300,000 reservists](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/21/russia-partial-mobilization-putin-war-ukraine/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2&itid=lb_war-in-ukraine-what-you-need-to-know_6) in a dramatic bid to reverse setbacks in his war on Ukraine. “As for the territories of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, I need to clarify this,” Peskov said. “The collapse of Western hegemony that has begun is irreversible,” Putin said. [annex four occupied regions of Ukraine](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/30/putin-ukraine-annexation-russia-ceremony/?itid=lb_war-in-ukraine-what-you-need-to-know_1), following staged referendums that were widely denounced as illegal. “Any annexation of a state’s territory by another state resulting from the threat or use of force is a violation of the principles of the U.N. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, adorned by twisted columns, ornate golden chandeliers and plaques listing hundreds of regiments that participated in Russia’s historical military conquests. headquarters on Thursday, blasted the annexation plan as a stunning violation of the U.N.’s core principles by a country that holds a permanent seat on the Security Council. The losses in Kharkiv prompted Putin, under pressure from pro-war hawks, to declare a partial military mobilization, intended to call up hundreds of thousands of reservists. “The choice was made, and Russia will not betray this choice.” The attempted seizure of territory, which Russian forces do not fully control either militarily or politically, also appeared to commit the country to a prolonged war. Patriotic music played ahead of the signing ritual, in which Putin sat at one white gold-trimmed desk and four proxy leaders of the occupied regions sat at another.

They appeared to be edging closer to encircling Lyman, a strategic rail hub in the country's east.

But some on social media and a few people passing by interpreted the vandalism to be a protest of Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine. In a letter to the bloc’s executive arm earlier this week, energy ministers from 15 out of 27 member nations called for a general cap on the price of gas — which wealthier states such as Germany and the Netherlands oppose. Marina Kovalenko, 57, a personal trainer who lives nearby, saw photos of the paint on social media and hurried over to catch a glimpse. The measures approved by the bloc’s energy ministers focused on taxing energy-company profits — the proceeds of which would be used to fund subsidies for struggling businesses and households — and a mandatory reduction in electricity consumption. The energy ministers gathered in Brussels on Friday agreed to a cap on revenues of nuclear and renewable energy suppliers at $180 per megawatt-hour, as well as a “solidarity” tax on fossil fuel companies. And for the first time in its history, the bloc mandated a politically sensitive reduction in energy consumption. [Fighting for Lyman](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/world/europe/ukraine-donbas-russia-lyman-bakhmut.html), which is in the northern part of Donetsk Province, has intensified over the past few weeks after Ukraine made a series of gains during a rapid counteroffensive in Kharkiv Province in the country’s northeast. He mixed conspiratorial riffs against an American-led “neocolonial system” with an appeal to the world to see Russia as the leader of an uprising against American power. Now, researchers at the Integrated Carbon Observation System, a Europe-wide research network that runs air monitoring stations across the continent have taken readings of methane gas from the leaks and combined them with weather and other atmospheric patterns to model the path of the plume. Putin that the United States would defend “every single inch” of NATO territory from a potential attack. Putin of Russia illegally moved to gobble up sovereign land in four territories of Ukraine on Friday, Ukrainian forces appeared to be edging closer to encircling Lyman, a strategic rail hub in the country’s east that lies within the territory Mr. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, said on Telegram that Russian forces “will have to ask for an exit” from Lyman.