Go to the media bankMinister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia Edgars Rinkevics. File photoMOSCOW, Sep 20 Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics believes that Western countries should provide Ukraine with more weapons after the announcement of referendums on joining Russia in the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. Earlier on Tuesday, the authorities of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions announced that a referendum on joining Russia would be held on their territories from September 23 to 27. «Apparently, Russia is moving forward with the organization of … referendums … the international community should reject this step, new sanctions should follow, and Ukraine should get more weapons,» Rinkevichs wrote on Twitter. The public chambers of the DPR and LPR on Monday turned to the heads of the republics Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik with the initiative to immediately hold a referendum on joining the Russian Federation . On Tuesday, the Public Council of the Kherson region addressed the head of the region with the same proposal. Later, with a request to hold a referendum on joining Russia as soon as possible, the head of the administration of the Zaporozhye region Yevgeny Balitsky was also addressed, such a statement was received from the chairman of the movement «We are with Russia» Vladimir Rogov and other members of the movement. As representatives of the regions emphasized in their appeals, the entry into the Russian Federation will secure their territories and restore historical justice. In their opinion, this decision is extremely necessary in the context of constant acts of terror by the nationalist authorities of Ukraine and NATO members who supply weapons to kill civilians.
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