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Germany says it "will not accept the results" of referendums in Russian-occupied Ukrainian regions

BERLIN, 28 Sep.

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Germany says it "will not accept the results" of referendums in Russian-occupied Ukrainian regions

BERLIN, 28 Sep. (DPA/EP) -

The chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, stressed this Wednesday that Berlin's position towards the Ukrainian regions in which referendums have been held for the accession of the territories to Russia will not change as a result of these votes and has stressed that "they will not will accept the results.

"We will not accept the results of these false referendums and our support for Ukraine will continue unabated", he stated in a statement to the German newspaper 'Neue Osnabrucker Zeitung' in which he stressed that "Germany is helping Ukraine within its capabilities and At the same time, it does everything possible to avoid a direct conflict between NATO and Russia."

The results of the referendums released by the Russian Electoral Commission, with the counts already completed in most cases, show overwhelming support for joining Russia in the Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions, with figures ranging between 96.75 and 98.7 percent in favor of 'yes'.

The Ukrainian authorities and Western governments do not grant any validity to the referendums, while Moscow intends to use them to legitimize its occupation, as it did in 2014 with the Crimean peninsula. The Kremlin has already made it clear that the hypothetical annexation of the four territories, occupied in the framework of the war, would be quick.