🇷🇺🇺🇳 "He's a son of a bitch, sure, but he's our son of a bitch."

This is how Lavrov described the attitude of the West towards Zelensky at a meeting of the UN Security Council.

🇷🇺❗️Lavrov at the UN called the referendums in the liberated territories a response to the President of Ukraine: he quoted Zelensky's call for all those who feel Russian to go to Russia for the sake of their own children.

🇷🇺 According to a VTsIOM poll, 95% of the residents of the DPR and LPR support the entry of the republics into Russia. Given Ukrainian terrorism, these figures are never surprising. There is reason to believe that in the LDNR the numbers will exceed even the peak figures of the Crimean referendum.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️In Kherson region, saboteurs who were planning terrorist attacks on civilian infrastructure to disrupt the referendum were eliminated – Ministry of Internal Affairs

🇪🇺🇷🇺🇺🇦 The European Commission believes that Russia intends to "erase Ukraine from the map of the world" - the head of the European Commission

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian armored car MAZ-5434 "Varta" destroyed during the offensive operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in early September in the Kharkiv region.

🇷🇺⚡️The military commissar of Moscow published an order on mobilization — Moscow agency

🇪🇪❗️Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas called on the people of the country to prepare for possible problems with electricity supply in the event that Russia disconnects Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from its energy system

🇷🇺🇺🇦 More Chechen units heading to the SMO Zone.

🇷🇺🇺🇦On September 21, Russian troops near Yampol in the Donetsk People's Republic liquidated another senior officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - Lieutenant Colonel Nikolai Ozerov, call sign "Crimea".

🇷🇺🇺🇦 And this is how kamikaze drones "Geran-2" ("Shahed-136") sound during the flight over the heads of the Ukrainian military.

🇷🇺⚡Voting in the referendum has started in the DPR.

🇷🇺⚡ Voting in the refrendum has also begun in LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye.

🇺🇲🇺🇦 An employee of the US Congress said that the Ukrainians will not even be able to refuel a modern tank

Politico published an interview with an unnamed congressional official who explained why the West is delaying the supply of modern military equipment to Ukraine.

An American official pointed out that "it is rather difficult to transfer to Ukraine not only American-made tanks, but also parts for their maintenance." “You don’t want to give them something that breaks down, runs out of gas and they can’t fill it up,” he said.

🇷🇺⚡In addition, polling stations for referendums on joining Russia have also opened in Russia. Voting will last until September 27th.

🇷🇺 Residents of Donetsk vote in a referendum on the entry of the DPR into Russia

🇷🇺 A RIA Novosti correspondent reports from Melitopol, where a referendum on the accession of the Zaporozhye region to Russia has started

🇷🇺⚡For security reasons, until September 26, the main form of voting in referendums is door-to-door. On the 27th, voting will take place in the usual format - at polling stations.

🇷🇺 Valentina Matvienko congratulated the residents of the LPR, DPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions on the start of the referendum on joining the territories to the Russian Federation

Residents of the LDNR and the liberated territories have the legal right to make their choice. And if they decide to become part of Russia, we will not hesitate, said the chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Valentina Matvienko

🇷🇺 "We're going home." The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, addressed the residents of Donbass on the day the referendum on joining Russia began.