The Russian president today signed the annexation of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia to the Russian Federation at the annexation ceremony held in Moscow today in the presence of the country’s main authorities and the pro-Russian leaders of Ukraine’s four regions.
Euskaraz irakurri: Putinek Ukrainako okupatutako lurren anexioa aldarrikatu du: “Errusiar hiritarrak izango dira betiko”
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putinproclaimed this Friday the annexation to the Russian Federation of Ukrainian Regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson Y Zaporizhzhya, which entails placing areas that are militarily occupied under its alleged sovereignty. “They will forever be Russian citizens,” he said.
In a symbolic act in the Kremlin, and in the presence of the country’s main authorities and the pro-Russian leaders of Ukraine’s four regions, Putin took another step in his sovereignist offensive against the neighboring country, heeding Western warnings governments and the UN, which question the legality of this annexation.
Putin has argued that responds to the wish of “millions of citizens”who are within their “right” to ask to join Russia on the principle of: self-determination of the peoples which, as he has noted, is also being considered by the United Nations itself.
The leaders of these four regions had formally asked the Kremlin head to annex these areas into Russia, following annexation referendums that were described as “farce” by Kiev and virtually the entire international community.
The president has gone back to the Soviet era and has appealed to tradition to defend that there are those outside Russia who “want to go back to their historic homeland.” “The people of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia will forever be Russian citizens,” he said in a speech to both Kiev and the West.
He has also commemorated the “martyrs” who lost their lives “victims of the Kiev regime”, including the Russian soldiers killed since the invasion began in February, and called on Ukrainian authorities for a ceasefire. accept and return to the negotiating table.
NATO and western countries
The Russian president has called for “protecting freedom” against those who pursue “world sovereignty” and act with “double standards”. “The West is talking about an international order based on rules, but where do those rules come from?” he lifted to applause.
“They don’t see us as a free society,” but as “a mob of slaves,” he added, accusing the “greedy” Western governments of acting in their own favor.
In that sense, he has warned that NATO’s commitments not to expand into Eastern Europe have proved a “deception”, as have the agreements to halt arms development. “United States is the only country in the world to have used nuclear weapons twice,” he recalls, referring to the bombing of Hiroshima Y Nagasaki.
Moscow organized referendums in the four regions it now claims as its own, in a context marked by military defeats on the ground following the counter-offensive ordered in Kiev a month ago. The annexation is also preceded by a partial mobilization with which the Russian armed forces aim for tens of thousands of reservists.
Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov confirmed on Friday that any attack on Ukraine’s affiliated regions will be considered “aggression” against Russia, before influencing those areas to become an integral part of the country.
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Source: EITB
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