Putin announces annexation: "The people have made their choice, the West wants us to be a colony"

"The people made their choice, a clear choice."

Russian President Vladimir Putin thus opened his speech that preceded the signing of the annexation treaties in Moscow of the Ukrainian regions: the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, the regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, partially controlled by the Russian army, equal to 18% of Ukraine.

The documents were also signed by the separatist leaders of the four territories who had asked the Kremlin to join the Russian Federation in the light of the referendum results.

Often interrupted by the applause of the guests at the ceremony, including the Chechen leader in tears of emotion, Putin launched a harsh attack on the West - "He wants us to become a colony" - and accused the Anglo-Saxons of being responsible for the " explosions "which caused severe leaks in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines.

Putin spoke of the "will of millions of people" and "choice of value" and quoted Tsarina Catherine II and other historical figures after asking for a minute of silence for the heroes of the war, the victims of the Odessa attack. 2014 and all our soldiers and officers who sacrificed their lives fighting, heroes of Greater Russia ".

At the end of the ceremony - together with Putin and the four governors of the new regions - the audience in the Hall of St. George, in the Kremlin, stood up shouting "Russia, Russia, Russia!".

Putin: "The annexed regions will be ours forever"

"I want them to hear me in Kiev, to hear me in the West: the people living in Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia become our citizens forever," said Putin who also promised the reconstruction of the annexed lands.

"Russia will defend" our land with all the forces and means at our disposal, we will do everything to ensure the safe life of our people.

This is the great mission of liberation of our people ". 

Putin: "Ready to negotiate"

Ukraine must "cease fire which began in 2014, we are ready to return to the negotiating table. But the choice" of annexing the population of the four Ukrainian regions is no longer up for discussion, said the Russian president who then launched very hard accusations against the West and the United States in particular.

Putin: "The United States used nuclear weapons"

"They were the first to use nuclear weapons, they set a precedent," he said, destroying the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

"I remember that the United States and the British razed the cities of Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne and numerous other German cities to the ground without there being any need from a military point of view during the Second World War. left a terrible mark in the memory of the peoples of Korea and Vietnam with the barbaric napalm bombings and chemical weapons ".

The United States "is now committed to putting in place the containment of Russia, China and Iran, and other countries are next in line, and also countries that are currently partners and allies of Washington," he said, accusing the US of demanding Italy, Germany, France and other European countries new sanctions against Russia, which damage the European economy.

"Many politicians obey, docile", declared the Russian president in his invective, "the consequence is de-industrialization".

According to him, "these leaders understand everything, but they prefer to pretend not to see".

Putin, the Anglo-Saxons sabotaged the Nord Stream

In his speech from the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin continued to point the finger at the West by insisting on allegations of "sabotage" of the Nord Stream gas pipelines.

Referring to "Anglo-Saxons who are not satisfied with sanctions alone", the Russian president claimed that they helped "organize explosions in the Baltic Sea gas pipelines" and "started destroying pan-European energy infrastructure".

"It is clear to everyone who the sabotage of the Nord Stream should be for," he said.

Putin attacks the West

The accession of the four regions "is a choice of the people who live there" in the name of "a spiritual bond that we have passed down from generation to generation", continued Putin.

"There remains a love for Russia, a feeling that no one can question".

In fact, he specified, "the elderly but also those born after the collapse of the USSR voted in favor of the referendums, of our common future", times that will not return.

Putin then accused "the West" of "waging a hybrid war against Russia" and argued that the West wants to make Russia its "colony".

"They don't want us to live as a free society - said the president - but under their control".

"The West uses oppression, exploitation and slavery instead of democracy, a monopolar world without democracy".

The West "does not need Russia, but we do. For them our flourishing is a danger", added the head of the Kremlin, but "Russia will always be Russia, let's defend our state and our values", he said. affirmed.

"The West seeks and seeks a new possibility to weaken and destroy Russia, they cannot rest" that Russia "is such a big, so rich country".

"It was the so-called West that trampled on the principle of inviolability of borders. And now, at its discretion, it decides who has the right to self-determination and who is not, who is not worthy".

"The West's promises not to expand NATO to the east have turned out to be dirty lies. The Russophobia of the West is nothing but racism," he thundered.

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Vladimir Putin, Kremlin, Moscow

Putin: "Third sex is unacceptable"

The "third sex" is "unacceptable" in Russia, but "the collapse of Western hegemony has begun and is inevitable", said Russian President Vladimir Putin, lashing out against the evolution of customs and proposing a "Russian culture" against the "satanism".

"Do we want to have parent 1 and parent 2 in Russia instead of mom and dad? Are we completely crazy?".

"Do we want our children to be indoctrinated that there are other genders" than male and female? She said.

The final cry: "Russia, Russia, Russia"

"Russia! Russia! Russia!": With this cry, repeated by those present in the hall and by Vladimir Putin together with the leaders of the four annexed Ukrainian regions, the ceremony that sanctioned the result of the referendums with the signing of the accession agreements concluded celebrated in the territories of Ukraine occupied by Moscow, rejected as illegal by the international community. 

After the signing, the Russian president got up and walked to the front of the stage for the national anthem and then for the collective handshake with the leaders of the pro-Russian authorities, before chanting 'Russia!

Russia!

Russia!".

"Vladimir Putin currently has no plans to visit the Ukrainian regions just annexed by Russia, but he will go there later," the Kremlin said.

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Vladimir Putin, Kremlin, Moscow

The annexation of the Ukrainian regions to Russia "has no place in the modern world," said UN Secretary General

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"Any decision to annex the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia has no legal force and must be condemned (...) It is a dangerous escalation", he warned. 

"Today, as in the past, a democracy is fighting for survival against the aggression of a foreign autocracy" but "I am convinced that democracy will prevail and it is our duty to defend democracy", the president of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.

"The illegal annexation proclaimed by Putin will change nothing. All the territories illegally occupied by the Russian invaders are Ukrainian land and will always be part of this sovereign nation," she tweeted.

Zelensky: "We will never give our land to the occupiers"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky did not listen to Vladimir Putin's speech.

While Putin spoke, explains the Suspline broadcaster, the National Security Committee of Ukraine was engaged in a meeting under the leadership of President Zelensky, who wrote on Telegram: “We have the situation under control.

Everything will be Ukraine. ''

“This is our land, our people.

We will never give what is ours to the occupants. ''

At the end of the meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, Zelensky announced that Ukraine has applied for rapid NATO membership.