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And the 215th day of war in Ukraine, of the special military operation – in the words of the Kremlin – which should have lasted just over three days. Demonstrations continue on Russian territory against the partial military mobilization and the Finnish Svenska Yle reported this Monday morning that throughout the weekend more than 17,000 Russians crossed the border with Finland to avoid being sent to the battlefront.

Zelensky, on the other hand, believes that Putin is not lying about the nuclear threat. “He wants to scare the whole world,” warned the Ukrainian president on Sunday night, in an interview with US television CBS. In the usual speech, he also said that the partial mobilization announced by the Russian counterpart as an attempt to give commanders on the ground a “steady stream of cannon fodder”, with soldiers who died replaced by someone who “has weapons at least.” in your hands”. .

In the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia, the referendum voting for accession to the Russian Federation continues, marked by allegations of irregularities.

What happened during the night?

• The Russians of Dagestan returned to the streets this Monday to demonstrate against the partial mobilization, after the protests that marked the weekend. A video shared by SkyNews shows a group of women scaring a Russian police officer during a protest.

A group of women successfully chase away a lone policeman at a protest against the mobilization in Dagestan https://t.co/TBCl9khPGK pic.twitter.com/jwJLqVPICO

— Francisco Scarr (@francis_scarr) September 25, 2022

• The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, agreed that “the time has come” to issue a new joint statement of both entities to “advance their association”.
• The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian people and civil organizations are nominated for the 2022 edition of the Sakharov Prizeof the European Parliament, for his extraordinary contribution to the protection of freedom of conscience.
• This Monday, satellite images were released showing long Traffic queues at Russia’s border with neighboring Georgia. The images, released by Maxar Technologies, a company that has been following the conflict in Ukraine, were taken on September 25.
• ukrainian forces bombed a school in Rubizhne (Luhansk region), which served as a polling place for the referendums of accession to Russia, the TASS agency advances. The attack was denounced by the leader of the electoral commission, supported by the Moscow authorities. So far there are no reports of injuries.
• Russian security forces arrested today in Vladivostok, in the east of the country, the Japanese consul Motoki Tatsunori, accused of spying.
• The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, revealed that will increase military support to Ukraine and impose more sanctions on Russia. The news comes after a conversation he had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

what happened in the afternoon

• Various NATO countries are participating in the two-day military exercises in the Baltic Sea. The air forces of the United Kingdom, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and the Czech Republic participate in the training.
• Hungary must prepare for a protracted war in neighboring Ukraine, said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who again criticized European sanctions on Russia. The Europe “he shot himself in the foot” with sanctions, he said.
• The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said it had notified four officers backed by Russian forces that they are criminal suspects for his role in organizing the referendums in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.
• Secretary General of the UN, António Guterres, called for an end to the “era of nuclear blackmail”. On the sidelines of the 77th United Nations General Assembly, at an event marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, Guterres pledged to work closely with all member states to neutralize nuclear threats.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday in which grants Russian citizenship to Edward Snowdena former US intelligence analyst told Reuters.
• Residents of Ukrainian territories under Russian control denounce irregularities in the vote on accession to Russia, with open polls, no voter lists, and no control over who votes or how many times they vote. “I have never seen anything so primitive in an election,” a Kherson resident told the Spanish news agency EFE.
• Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko paid a surprise visit to Sochi, Russia, and met with the Russian counterpartVladimir Putin.
• The Kremlin spokesman said that the Russian government “has not yet decided” whether to impose martial law or close the borderspreventing men of military age from leaving the country.

What happened during the morning.

In Ryazan, a city in western Russia, a man set himself on fire at a bus stop while shouting that he did not want to go to war;

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Cyril stated that Russians who sacrifice their lives on the battlefield in Ukraine will see “all their sins” erased;

The OECD has warned that a more serious energy shortage, especially gas, could raise eurozone inflation by 1.5pp. and reduce growth in Europe by more than 1.2 pp., causing a recession;

Prigozhin admitted that he created the Wagner group, according to the Russian news agency RIA. Yevgeny Prigozhin, also known as “Putin’s boss”, who in recent days has appeared in several videos on social networks trying to recruit Russian prisoners for the war in Ukraine, will now have recognized that he is the “father” of the Wagner group;

A man shot a military commander at a Siberian recruitment center after refusing to enlist in a (partial) mobilization to fight in Ukraine;

Still late Sunday night

The US has warned Moscow that the use of nuclear weapons will have “catastrophic consequences” for Russia, as Washington and its allies will respond “decisively”;

As they are released from captivity, the British servicemen who were captured by the Russians while trying to help the Ukrainians defend themselves begin to give details of the months they were under Russian rule. “Do you want a quick death or a beautiful death?” was one of the questions 28-year-old Aiden Aslin was asked during his captivity. Aslin also revealed that prisoners captured by the Russians were required to sing the Russian anthem every morning;