Moscow hopes to annex Luhansk and Donetsk in the east and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south, which make up about 15 percent of Ukraine.
Ukraine's Zelenskyy says Russian President Putin wants to scare the whole world even as US officials ask Russia to steer clear of nuclear war.
Russia makes its case to UNGA for its offensive in Ukraine, repeating a series of grievances about its neighbour and West and that Moscow had "no choice" but to take military action –– now in its 214th day.
Voting on whether Russia should annex Kremlin-controlled regions of Ukraine get under way as Kiev's forces say they are clawing back territory from pro-Russian separatists on the conflict's 212th day.
Referendums have begun in Donetsk and Luhansk in the east and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south, in what Kiev and the West have denounced as a "sham" vote.
Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president, also says there is no going back on referendums being organised by Russia-appointed and separatist authorities in large swathes of Ukraine.
President Putin orders a partial mobilisation of reservists in Russia and the Ukrainian nuclear operator accuses Russia of again striking the Zaporizhzhia atomic plant in southern Ukraine on the 210th day of the conflict.
Pro-Russia authorities in the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as in the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, say they will hold separatist votes over five days beginning Friday this week.
EU seeks international tribunal for "war crimes" after a mass grave is found, and Biden warns Putin not to use tactical nuclear or chemical weapons.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy are each courting major allies, seeking to prop up their efforts in fighting that has entered its 204th day.
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy visits the recently retaken eastern city of Izyum on the 203rd day of the conflict and the Kremlin reiterates that Kiev's ambitions to join NATO present a threat to Russia's security.
Russia's Putin and France's Macron discuss the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant over the phone as Ukraine continues with its lightning counter-offensive on the 200th day of the conflict.
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