A signing ceremony to annex four more areas of Ukraine in Mosoww
epa10215716 Chechnya's regional President Ramzan Kadyrov before a ceremony to sign treaties on new territories' accession to Russia at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, 30 September 2022. From 23 to 27 September, residents of the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics as well as the Russian-controlled areas of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine voted in a so-called 'referendum' to join the Russian Federation. EPA/MIKHAIL METZEL/SPUTNIK/KREMLIN POOL MANDATORY CREDIT