The US authorities will not recognize the "referendums" held in the liberated areas of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson region and Zaporizhia of Ukraine.

APA reports that US President Joe Biden announced this.

"The United States will never recognize Russia's claims to the sovereign territory of Ukraine.

These so-called referendums were fictitious, absolute frauds.

Their results were fabricated in Moscow," he said at the meeting at the US-Pacific Islands summit.

He also called the special operation in Ukraine a gross violation of the UN Charter and the fundamental principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity of countries.