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🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin's address at a ceremony for signing the treaties on the accession of the DPR, the LPR, the Zaporozhye Region and the Kherson Region to the Russian Federation
Key points
• The people living in Lugansk and Donetsk, in Kherson and Zaporozhye have become our citizens, forever.
• We call on the Kiev regime to immediately cease fire and all hostilities; to end the war it unleashed back in 2014 and return to the negotiating table.
• The choice of the people in Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson will not be discussed. The decision has been made, and Russia will not betray it.
• We will defend our land with all the forces and resources we have, and we will do everything we can to ensure the safety of our people.
• The West continued and continues looking for another chance to strike a blow at us, to weaken and break up Russia.
• The Western elites have remained the same colonisers. We have never agreed to and will never agree to such political nationalism and racism.
• The world has entered a period of a fundamental, revolutionary transformation.
❗️ We are fighting for a just and free path, first of all for ourselves, for Russia, in order to leave dictate and despotism in the past. I am convinced that countries and peoples understand that a policy based on the exceptionalism of whoever it may be and the suppression of other cultures and peoples is inherently criminal, and that we must close this shameful chapter. The ongoing collapse of Western hegemony is irreversible.
Read President Putin's historic speech in full
Key points
• The people living in Lugansk and Donetsk, in Kherson and Zaporozhye have become our citizens, forever.
• We call on the Kiev regime to immediately cease fire and all hostilities; to end the war it unleashed back in 2014 and return to the negotiating table.
• The choice of the people in Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson will not be discussed. The decision has been made, and Russia will not betray it.
• We will defend our land with all the forces and resources we have, and we will do everything we can to ensure the safety of our people.
• The West continued and continues looking for another chance to strike a blow at us, to weaken and break up Russia.
• The Western elites have remained the same colonisers. We have never agreed to and will never agree to such political nationalism and racism.
• The world has entered a period of a fundamental, revolutionary transformation.
❗️ We are fighting for a just and free path, first of all for ourselves, for Russia, in order to leave dictate and despotism in the past. I am convinced that countries and peoples understand that a policy based on the exceptionalism of whoever it may be and the suppression of other cultures and peoples is inherently criminal, and that we must close this shameful chapter. The ongoing collapse of Western hegemony is irreversible.
Read President Putin's historic speech in full
Telegraph
Signing of treaties on accession of Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics and Zaporozhye and Kherson regions to Russia
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