UN vote set to condemn ‘illegal’ Russian referendums

Russian recruits take a train at a railway station in Prudboi, Volgograd region of Russia (AP)

The UN Security Council has scheduled a vote on a resolution that would condemn Russia for its “illegal so-called referendums” in four Ukrainian regions, and declare that they “have no validity”.

The US and Albanian-sponsored resolution would call on all countries not to recognise any alterations to the status of Ukraine’s Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.