“We will never recognize the fake referendums in Ukraine that were held at gunpoint,” the G7 foreign ministers said, referring to the annexation of Kherson, Zaporozhye, Lugansk and Donetsk to Russia.

The ministers said: “We will impose additional costs on Russia”, noting that “we reiterate that Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporozhye and Crimea are Ukrainian territories”, and considered that “Russia’s statements on nuclear weapons will not deter us from supporting Ukraine “. , no matter what”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during the signing ceremony of the agreements on the accession of the Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions to the Russian Federation, announced that “Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions have become Russian regions”, noting that “the accession of four new regions of the Russian Federation expresses the will of millions of people,” he pointed out, “and the choice of millions of inhabitants of these regions is carried out after the catastrophe of the collapse of the Soviet Union.”