Applauded on several occasions, the Russian president called Ukraine to “a cease-fire”, despite the recent disappointments of the troops of Moscow.
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was to be a “bulky” speech, according to Dmitri Peskov, his spokesperson. He finally lasted only thirty-seven minutes. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, formalized, Friday, September 30, the annexation by Russia of the four territories of the eastern Ukraine consulted by referendum, in the name of the “right to the self -determination of peoples”. “This is the desire for millions of people,” said Vladimir Putin at an official ceremony in the presence of hundreds of dignitaries, including elected officials from Duma, in the Saint-Georges du Kremlin room.
“The inhabitants of Louhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporijia become our citizens forever,” he added, adding that the populations had voted “unequivocal” for “a common future”. “Four new Russian regions” will be formed, he said. We will defend these lands “with all our forces and by all means”, he hammered, speaking of a fight “for historical Russia”. “The Soviet Union no longer exists, we can no longer return to the past, but Russia no longer needs it, no longer needs that,” he continued.
Applauded on several occasions, the Russian president called kyiv to “immediately stop shots, all hostilities” and to “return to the negotiating table”, despite the recent disappointments of Moscow troops, a pocket of which has since been Partially surrounded in Lyman’s strategic city. 2> diatribe against the West 2>
In his speech, the head of the Kremlin mainly engaged in a violent diatribe against the West, which he accused of wanting to preserve a “neocolonial system which allows him to parasitize and, in fact, to plunder the whole world “. “They want to see us as a colony.”
He continued his accusations by speaking of “Satanism”, “negation of the human being” and violation of moral and family values. “Do we want, in our country, instead of having a father and a mother, we have a parent n o 1 and a parent n o 2? ( …) That we talk to our children about sex change operations? “, He said, judging that the” propaganda “of the” dictatorship of the dollar “masked the truth. Russophobia at work in the world is “racism”, he denounced.
He also accused the Anglo-Saxons of being behind the “explosions” which caused leaks on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, built to transport Russian gas to Europe. He had already described this attack on Thursday as an “act of international terrorism”.
At the end of the speech M. Putin signed the annexation documents alongside Denis Pouchiline (Oblast de Donetsk), Leonid Pasetchnik (Oblast de Louhansk), Vladimir Saldo (Oblast de Kherson) and Ievhen Balytsky (Oblast de Zaporijia). They then joined their hands before chanting “Russia!” In unison with the room, according to the images broadcast on television. “A real historical moment,” commented the presenter of the Rossia chain 24.
