Days of voting in provinces of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia to end on Tuesday; Japan foreign minister says consul Tatsunori Motoki was blindfolded and physically restrained
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called Russia’s mobilisation “a frank attempt to give commanders on the ground a constant stream of “cannon fodder”,” in his nightly address on Monday evening.
Russian society is not yet aware of all the brutality of the Russian government towards its own people. But we must do everything so that every citizen of Russia recognises that his own state is depriving him of the most important thing – the right to life.”