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Members of a local electoral commission count ballots at a polling station following a referendum on the joining of Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine to Russia, in Sevastopol, Crimea September 27, 2022. Voting at the polling station was held for residents of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) - the Russian-controlled region of Ukraine. Luhansk authorities said 98.5% of people there had voted to join Russia, based on 69% of ballots counted. Ukraine has repeatedly warned that Russian annexation of territories would destroy any chance of peace talks, seven months after Russia invaded its neighbour. The votes mirrored a referendum in Crimea after Russia's seizure of the southern peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, when Crimea's leaders declared a 97% vote to secede from Ukraine and join Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced the partial mobilization of his country's reservists. According to Russian officials, 300,000 reservists will be drafted immediately. Conscripts and students will not be called up and will affect only those with combat experience, according to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. In his speech, Putin reiterated that the goal of Russia's invasion of Ukraine was the liberation of the Donbas region. Ukrainian officials in response slammed the referendum as a "sham" and said it won't change anything.

☆ Putin still believes he was right to invade Ukraine, Germany's chancellor said after speaking with him for 90 minutes
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke with Putin for 90 minutes earlier this week. After the call, Scholz told reporters that Putin still believes he was right to invade Ukraine. And there was no indication that new attitudes are emerging," German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told reporters on Wednesday, one day after speaking with Putin for 90 minutes. Scholz told reporters that although he holds different views from Putin, the German leader still believes it's important for the two to remain in contact, according to media reports. According to a German government readout of the call, Scholz urged Putin to negotiate a ceasefire and withdraw his troops from Ukraine, POLITICO reported.

☆ Ukraine's top diplomat calls out Rand Paul for delaying 'much needed support' he says could be saving lives
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-13 | by ( John Haltiwanger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ukraine's top diplomat criticized Sen. Rand Paul for delaying aid to Kyiv. Paul singlehandedly stalled a $40 billion aid bill intended to support Ukraine as it battles Russia. Paul delayed "much needed support" that could save lives, Dmytro Kuleba said in a tweet. @POTUS, @SecBlinken, @SenateGOP, @SenateDems and American people were in strong support, and @RandPaul delayed so much needed support," Kuleba tweeted. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer also ripped into Paul for delaying the bill.

☆ Ukraine Is the West’s War Now
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-02 | by ( Yaroslav Trofimov | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Two days before the Russian invasion of his country, on Feb. 22, 2022, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba was welcomed to the White House. As he greeted President Biden and senior administration officials, Mr. Kuleba later recalled, he felt like a patient surrounded by doctors presenting him with a diagnosis of stage-four cancer. The consensus among the U.S. and its European allies was that there was nothing they could do to prevent the inevitable. Their intelligence services predicted a Russian takeover of Kyiv and a collapse of the Ukrainian state within days. The U.S. by then had already closed down its embassy and evacuated all American personnel.

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