Zelenskyy holds meeting of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council

ALONA MAZURENKO – FRIDAY, 30 SEPTEMBER 2022, 16:58

On 30 September, a meeting of the National Security and Defence Council was held under the chairmanship of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Source: President’s Office of Ukraine

Quote: "Members of the National Security and Defence Council [NSDC] have discussed the issue of further attempts by the Russian Federation to annex the territory of Ukraine and escalate armed aggression.

Information was heard from Oleksandr Lytvynenko, the head of Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service, Vasyl Maliuk, the Acting Head of the Security Service, and Kyrylo Budanov, the Head of the Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Armed Forces.

The participants in the meeting discussed ways of countering the aggressor country’s attempts to annex Ukrainian territories."

Details: The heads of the Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson Oblast Military Administrations and Tamila Tasheva, the presidential representative of Ukraine in Crimea, briefed the participants in the meeting on the sham referendum that Russia held in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

Numerous violations and manipulations with voter lists occurred during the sham referendums.

In addition, the NSDC considered the issue of ensuring the collective security of Ukraine and the Euro-Atlantic space.

The participants in the meeting listened to reports from Dmytro Kuleba, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Olha Stefanishyna, the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, and Ihor Zhovkva, the Deputy Head of the President’s Office.

Background: Volodymyr Zelenskyy convened an urgent meeting of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine on 30 September.

On 29 September, the Kremlin announced that "a ceremonial signing of the agreements on the accession of new territories to Russia" would take place on 30 September.

On 30 September, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, signed the "agreements on the accession to Russia" of the occupied Ukrainian territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts and announced that from now on their residents are citizens of the Russian Federation.

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