Ceremony to declare Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian territories held

FILE PHOTO: Adam Delimkhanov, member of the Russian lower house of parliament or the State Duma, attends a ceremony to declare the annexation of the Russian-controlled territories of four Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, after holding what Russian authorities called referendums in the occupied areas of Ukraine that were condemned by Kyiv and governments worldwide, in the Georgievsky Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, September 30, 2022. Sputnik/Mikhail Metzel/Pool via REUTERS/ File photo