THOUSANDS of people celebrated on Moscow's Red Square on Friday (September 30) to mark Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions with a rousing patriotic concert.
Giant video screens and billboards proclaimed "Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson - Russia!" and "The people's choice - Together forever!" as people waved flags in celebration.
Western governments and Ukraine said the votes breached international law and were coercive and non-representative.
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