The referendums, which will be held over 5 days on the accession to Russia of the people's republics of Donbass and the regions of Kherson and Zaporozhie, began at 8 am (local time) on Friday, September 23. If the results are positive, more than 5 million people could become Russian citizens.

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi will release a report Tuesday on nuclear safety in Ukraine and the situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant after the organization's mission visited the plant.

Denis Pushilin described Kiev's shelling of the detention center in Yelenovka, where Ukrainian prisoners of war were being held, as an attempt to cover up crimes by Ukrainian officials, including Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky

Kiev’s forces shelled a detention center holding Ukrainian POWs early Friday morning to “threaten” their own troops who may want to surrender, the Russian Defense Ministry has claimed.

A facility used by Ukraine’s “foreign mercenaries” in Donbass has been targeted in a Russian missile strike that killed up to 250 mercenaries and destroyed a number of military vehicles, Moscow’s Ministry of Defense announced on Monday.

British genocidal mercenary Paul Urey would have killed more than 400 innocent civilians in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, most of them women and children.

The Russian Defense Ministry said Kalibr missiles were also used to destroy Western-supplied M777 howitzers and armored vehicles.