Russia-Ukraine latest updates: NATO vows more support for Ukraine

NATO pledges to step up support for Kyiv in response to Russia’s ‘referendums’ that are under way in parts of Ukraine.

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A service member of so-called Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) walks with his rifle after voting during a referendum on joining LPR to Russia, at a military facility in Luhansk, Ukraine [Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters]
By David Child and Linah Alsaafin
Published On 23 Sep 2022
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Updated: 
23 Sep 2022
(20:00 GMT)
  • NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the organisation will ramp up help for Kyiv in response to Russia’s “sham” referendums in occupied territories of Ukraine.
  • Moscow-engineered referendums are taking place in four occupied regions of Ukraine, with results in favour of annexation seen as a foregone conclusion.