(ANSA-AFP) - BRUSSELS, SEP 28 - The EU on Wednesday slammed
"illegal" annexation votes Russia held in four occupied regions
of Ukraine and their "falsified" results, the bloc's foreign
policy chief Josep Borrell said. "EU denounces holding of
illegal 'referenda' and their falsified outcome," Borrell said
on Twitter. "This is another violation of Ukraine's sovereignty
and territorial integrity, amidst systematic abuses of human
rights," he said. European Council President Charles Michel
tweeted: "Sham referenda. Sham results. We recognize neither."
On Tuesday, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg called the votes
organised by Moscow in the occupied Ukrainian regions as "a
blatant violation of international law" which have "no
legitimacy". (ANSA-AFP).
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