Former world heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev is one of 200,000 reservists called up by Russian leader Vladimir Putin to fight in the Ukraine war, European media reported Friday. Valuev, 49 years old, 2.13 meters tall and 146 kilos in weight, announced to the Russian media Izvestia that he will enlist in the army of his country to help in the war with the Ukraine. The former champion was one of the great heavyweight figures in the late 1990s and early 2000s, before becoming the WBA heavyweight champion. After leaving boxing, Valuev was elected a deputy in the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, in 2011, and from there he has now decided to enlist in the front, the newspaper As reported.
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Putin will sign this Friday the annexation to Russia of the occupied regions in Ukraine | International
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
The signing ceremony of the accession agreements with Russia of the self-proclaimed people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk and of the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions, occupied by Russian forces in the framework of the invasion of Ukraine, will take place this Friday, according to confirmed Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov.
the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, will sign this Friday the treaties for the annexation of the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Jerson and Zaporiyiathe Kremlin announced.
“The signing ceremony of the agreements for the entry of the new territories into Russia will take place tomorrow,” said the spokesman for the Russian Presidency, Dmitri Peskov, in his daily telephone press conference, in which he added that the act will have place in the San Jorge room of the Grand Kremlin Palace at 3:00 p.m. (09:00 a.m. in Chile).
This, following the referendums held in these regions, which exceeded 90% approval by the population according to official data, dismissed as fraudulent by practically the entire international community, while Moscow seeks to use them to legitimize its occupation, as it did in 2014 with the peninsula of Crimea.
The leaders of those regions arrived last night on a common flight to the Russian capital.
The previous day, the pro-Russian chiefs of Jershon, Volodymyr Saldo; of Zaporiyia, Yevgeny Balitsky; of Donetsk, Dennis Pushilin; and of Lugansk, Leonid Pásechnik, formally petitioned Putin for the incorporation of their territories into Russia.
Results of doubtful legitimacy
According to the results released today by the pro-Russian authorities with one hundred percent of the ballots counted, between 87.05 and 99.23% of voters in the territories partially controlled by Russian forces in eastern and southern Ukraine supported annexation to Russia.
Both houses of the Russian parliament are expected to formally endorse the annexation agreements early next week.
The Russian Senate plans to debate that issue on October 4. Before, the incorporation has to receive the approval of the Russian Duma or Lower House, which meets for an extraordinary session a day before.
At the same time, tomorrow followingnoon on Red Square there will be an event in support of the incorporation of new territories into Russia.
The Kremlin indicated that it would report later on Putin’s possible attendance at this event.
The European Union described the Russian referendums as “farces” and threatens new sanctions
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As reported by Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the Donetsk regional military administration, the Russian occupiers in Mykolaivka bombed a school in which a shelter for civilians was set up. About 12 people were in the shelter at the time, including two children and a person with a disability.
As he specified, the facility that functioned as a shelter did not suffer major damage and those who were inside survived.
“The cynicism and senseless cruelty of the occupants knows no bounds: this school has nothing to do with a military installation, local civilians were hiding there from the numerous bombing raids that the Russians regularly carry out in the city,” he complained.
Pro-Russian separatist leaders travel to Moscow to formalize annexation of occupied territories | International
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
The pro-Russian authorities of the Lugansk and Kherson regions, in eastern Ukraine, asked Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to accept the annexation of the territories to Russia following the annexation referendums held in recent days and which are considered illegitimate by much of the international community.
The leaders of the breakaway republics of Donetsk y Luhanskin the east of Ukraineare on their way to Moscow to formalize the annexation to Russia following the “referendums” held in four territories controlled by Russian troops in which the majority of voters supported this option, according to the pro-Russians.
“I have the document, the protocol (end of the referendums on accession to Russia) and now I am going to Moscow,” said the head of self-proclaimed Donetsk, Denis Pushilin.
The leader of Lugansk, Leonid Pásechnik, also reported that he is on his way to the Russian capital with the aim of finalizing the legal procedures for the incorporation of the territory into Russia.
Before leaving for Moscow, Passechnik addressed Russian President Vladimir Putin to ask for Lugansk to be incorporated into Russia.
“Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich (Putin’s patronymic), I am writing to you on behalf of the people of the Luhansk region. Taking into account the approval by the population of the republic in the referendum, I ask you to consider the issue of uniting the Luhansk People’s Republic with Russia as a subject of the Russian Federation,” Paséchnik said, according to the letter published by the information center of the pro-Russian separatist territory.
Between 87.05 and 99.23% of the voters in the referendums in the territories controlled by Russian forces in the east and south of Ukraine supported annexation to Russia, according to the results released this Wednesday by the pro-Russian authorities with the one hundred percent of the ballots counted. The legitimacy of this process has been denied by Ukraine and virtually the entire international community.
The greatest support for annexation was recorded in Donetsk, where 99.23% of voters would have supported joining Russia.
The figure was slightly lower in Lugansk, where 98.42% reportedly voted in favor of this option.
In the territories controlled by Russia in the southern Ukrainian regions of Zaporizhia and Kherson, 93.11 and 87.05% of citizens, respectively, would have voted in favor of entering Russia.
Ukraine and practically the entire international community denied any legitimacy to the consultations.
According to the Russian newspaper Kommersantthe process of annexation of the four Ukrainian territories to Russia may take 12 days.
This is twice the time required to incorporate the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014.
According to Russian law, Putin has to first recognize the independence of Kherson and Zaporizhia before approving their accession to Russia.
The independence of Donetsk and Lugansk was already recognized by Moscow on February 21, three days before the start of the military campaign in Ukraine.
Yesterday it became known that the Russian Senate plans to debate the annexation of the new territories on October 4. Before the incorporation has to receive the approval of the Duma or Russian lower house.
Once both chambers of Parliament give their approval, the respective document will be ratified by Putin, which may happen on the same day.