Pro-Kremlin officials said on Wednesday that the self-declared republics of Luhansk and Donetsk and the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions had all voted to join Russia
Giant video screens were set up in Moscow's Red Square on Wednesday, with billboards proclaiming"Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson - Russia!"
Mr Peskov said the legal situation would"radically change" after the voting,"with all the corresponding consequences for protection of those areas and ensuring their security". James Cleverly, the foreign secretary, told the United Nations last week:"We know what Vladimir Putin is doing.
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