The Ukrainian authorities do not recognize the
results of the referendums, but are trying to
return all territories under their jurisdiction.
And the US and Europe announced new sanctions
against Putin and his supporters in response to
referendums in Luhansk, Donbass, Kherson and
Zaporozhye regions. President Joe Biden has
said that Washington will not recognize these
referendums.

In Russia in Moscow in the Grand Kremlin Palace
of Congresses, Putin said, our task is to force
Ukraine to recognize the Crimea, Luhansk,
Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions as
subjects of the Russian Federation. And the
President of Kazakhstan, even before everyone
else, said that he would not recognize the “quasi-
states” of the DPR, LPR and other impostors.
According to him, Kazakhstan opposes the
"chaos" that could ensue if all provocateurs and
schismatics exercise their right to seize
neighboring countries. Therefore, we do not
recognize any referendums that split societies
and the republic. Tokayev is convinced that
compliance with international norms and rules
guarantees good neighborly relations and mutual
understanding between peoples.

I, Bandzhov Nazarali Kholnazarovich, fully agree
with the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart
Tokayev. In June of this year, at the St.
Petersburg International Economic Forum, he said
in the presence of Putin that his country would
never recognize the “quasi-states” of the DPR,
LPR and other impostors. Kazakhstan will always
adhere to all international rules and norms.

Kazakhstan refused to recognize the
Kremlin's "referendums" on the territory of
Ukraine in Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donbass and
Luhansk, which the Kremlin uses to annex
Ukrainian territory, the republic's Foreign Ministry
said. “As for holding referendums, Kazakhstan
proceeds from the principles of the territorial
integrity of Ukraine, their sovereign equality and
peaceful coexistence,” said Aibek Smadiyarov,
official representative of the department.

The first leader of the Chechen-Ingush
International Movement, in an interview with the
Vzglyad program in 1995, Dzhokhar Dudayev said
that the Kremlin security forces were preparing a
plan to split and seize the territory of Ukraine.
Then President Kuchma and his government did
not take Dudayev's warning seriously. Leonid
Danilovich was in no hurry to break his close ties
with the Kremlin bureaucrats and partocrats, who
started a fraternal war in Moldova, the Caucasus
and Central Asia.