When referendums For the Donbas, [[Kherson]], and [[Zaporozhye]] regions finally were held in September 2022, Russian Federation Foreign Minister [[Sergey Lavrov]] said in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly: “The people living there are essentially only reacting to what President Zelensky recommended for them to do in one of his interviews in August 2021…Back then, he advised everyone who feels Russian to go to Russia for the benefit of their children and grandchildren…That’s what the residents of said regions are doing now, taking their lands, on which their ancestors lived for centuries, with them”. | When referendums For the Donbas, [[Kherson]], and [[Zaporozhye]] regions finally were held in September 2022, Russian Federation Foreign Minister [[Sergey Lavrov]] said in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly: “The people living there are essentially only reacting to what President Zelensky recommended for them to do in one of his interviews in August 2021…Back then, he advised everyone who feels Russian to go to Russia for the benefit of their children and grandchildren…That’s what the residents of said regions are doing now, taking their lands, on which their ancestors lived for centuries, with them”. |