Ukraine Hit By Russian Shelling Amid UN Spotlight: Report

Shelling hit southern Ukraine late on Saturday while Russia sought to defend its seven-month old war at the United Nations even as it moves to escalate the conflict.

Bombing hit southern Ukraine late on Saturday as Russia sought to defend its seven-month-old war at the United Nations even as it moved to escalate the conflict.

Kyiv and Western countries say that the referendums in the territories captured by Russia by force are a ploy designed to justify the escalation of hostilities with the newly formed forces.

After the battlefield losses in Ukraine in recent weeks.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov addressed the United Nations General Assembly and the world press on Saturday, opposing Russia's attack on its neighbor as being limited to Washington and countries under its influence. nearly three

Quarters of the council's member states voted to reprimand Russia and demand that it withdraw its forces shortly after the invasion on February 24.

Kyiv and Moscow blamed each other for the bombing of the Zaporizhzhya region in Ukraine on Saturday.

The region's governor, Oleksandr Staruch, said on Telegram that Russian forces had launched an "intense missile strike" on the region from about 10 aircraft, injuring at least three people.

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The official Russian Information Agency, citing unnamed sources, said that Ukrainian forces bombed a grain depot and fertilizer stores in the area.

Reuters was unable to verify the claims of either side.

Speaking at a press conference after his speech to parliament in New York, Lavrov said that the Ukrainian regions where voting operations are taking place will be under the "full protection" of Moscow if Russia annexes them, including with nuclear weapons.

The Group of Seven industrialized nations said it would not recognize the results of the vote.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said on Twitter that Ukraine had requested an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council on the two referendums, accusing Russia of violating the UN Charter by trying to change Ukraine's borders.

Putin on Wednesday ordered the country's first mobilization since World War II, an announcement that saw some Russian men rush to the border, as traffic surges at border crossings with Finland and Georgia and airfares from Moscow skyrocket.

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A thousand people have been arrested across Russia for protesting the conscription, including 798 people arrested in 33 towns on Saturday alone, according to independent monitoring group OVD-Info.

Frustration even spread to the pro-Kremlin media, with an editor at the state-run RT news channel complaining about problems such as connectivity-

The papers being sent to the wrong men were "infuriating the people."

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