- NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the organisation will ramp up help for Kyiv in response to Russia’s “sham” referendums in occupied territories of Ukraine.
- Moscow-engineered referendums are taking place in four occupied regions of Ukraine, with results in favour of annexation seen as a foregone conclusion.
- NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the organisation will ramp up help for Kyiv in response to Russia’s “sham” referendums in occupied territories of Ukraine.
- Moscow-engineered referendums are taking place in four occupied regions of Ukraine, with results in favour of annexation seen as a foregone conclusion.
- The Kremlin expects the areas to join Russia quickly, as Kyiv and its Western allies dismiss the ballots as a “sham”.
- The chair of a UN-mandated inquiry concludes that Russian troops have committed war crimes in Ukraine.
This live blog is now closed, thank you for joining us. These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war on Friday, September 23: