Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba said on Friday that Russia's annexation of four regions of Ukraine as a result of "referendums" does not change anything.

"By attempting to annex Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, Putin tries to grab territories he doesn't even physically control on the ground. Nothing changes for Ukraine: we continue liberating our land and our people, restoring our territorial integrity," Kuleba wrote on Twitter."

By attempting to annex Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, Putin tries to grab territories he doesn’t even physically control on the ground. Nothing changes for Ukraine: we continue liberating our land and our people, restoring our territorial integrity.

— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) September 30, 2022

As previously reported, on September 30, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, has signed the "agreement on the accession to Russia" of the occupied Ukrainian territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts and declared that henceforth, residents of these territories are citizens of the Russian Federation.

The leaders of all the countries of the European Union published a joint statement in which they strongly rejected and unconditionally condemned Russia's illegal annexation of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions of Ukraine.

The USA, the UK, and Canada have introduced additional sanctions against Russia.