Zelensky declares Kyiv will request fast-track NATO membership and vows never to negotiate with Russia
Volodymyr Zelensky today declared that Kyiv is requesting fast-track NATO membership after Russia formally annexed four Moscow-held regions of Ukraine
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (C), Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal (R) and Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk (L) pose with a request for fast-track membership in the NATO military alliancepartially occupied by Russia, at the Grand Kremlin Palace on September 30, 2022 to commemorate their annexation of the territories
Russia's Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and other participants attend a ceremony at the Kremlin to declare the annexation of the Russian-controlled territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions in Ukraine
Putin officially signs a decree accepting the four occupied regions of Ukraine as new territories of Russia, paving the way for him to escalate his war against his ex-Soviet neighbour
Putin's vitriolic speech was delivered inside the Kremlin's grand Georgian Hall in front of hundreds of Putin's henchmen, including the likes of Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, and spy chief Sergey Naryshkin
The four Ukrainian regions Putin has seized are Luhansk and Donetsk, in the east, and Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, in the south, but his armed forces are not in full control and fighting is continuing across all of them
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