Annexation

2022 - 10 - 1

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Putin's annexation speech: more angry taxi driver than head of state (The Guardian)

Russian leader's rambling speech focuses on western sins and leaves key Ukraine questions unanswered.

Again, those in Moscow are no better informed than the rest of us. But annexation involves more than pieces of paper, and while in 2014 Russia had just carried out a swift and stealthy military operation to seize Crimea, this time things are far less clear-cut. Today, he offered an angrier but less coherent denunciation of the west, more angry taxi driver than head of state. Instead, Putin railed at the west for a litany of sins, ranging from destabilising Russia in the 17th century to allowing gender reassignment surgery. The improvements in quality of life that the first years of Putinism brought are drying up amid sanctions and international isolation. This time, the domestic and international situations are far less favourable for Putin.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin announces the annexation of four ... (ABC News)

President Vladimir Putin says four occupied areas of Ukraine will be amalgamated into Russia following a series of local referendums Kyiv and the West have ...

They then all clasped hands and chanted "Russia! Russia!" "We are ready for this ... Both houses of the Kremlin-controlled Russian parliament will meet next week to rubber-stamp the treaties for the regions to join Russia, to be sent to Mr Putin for his final approval. But we will not discuss the choice of the people [in annexed regions]," Mr Putin said. During a video message, the Ukrainian leader also said Kyiv remained committed to the idea of co-existence with Russia "on equal, honest, dignified and fair conditions", but that it was unlikely while Mr Putin remained. He added that the West had broken its promises to Russia and had no moral right to talk about democracy, and countries of the West were acting as the imperialist states they had "always been". He accused the United States and its allies of waging a "hybrid war" against Russia and the separatist administrations Russia backed in eastern Ukraine. He accused Kyiv of threatening people who took part in the referendums with "repression" and warned "Kyiv should respect the will of the people", alluding to his repeated threats to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia's "territorial integrity". - Mr Putin announced the annexation of four Ukrainian territories in front of hundreds of dignitaries in the Kremlin "This is the will of millions of people," he said in front of hundreds of dignitaries at the ornate St George's Hall. Mr Putin said the people living in the annexed regions were now Russian compatriots "forever".

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Turkey rejects Russia's annexation of Ukrainian territory (Reuters)

Turkey, a NATO member, has conducted a diplomatic balancing act since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. Ankara opposes Western sanctions on Russia and has ...

Ankara opposes Western sanctions on Russia and has close ties with both Moscow and Kyiv, its Black Sea neighbours. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Turkey, a NATO member, has conducted a diplomatic balancing act since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb.

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Greece Condemns Russia's Annexation of Eastern Ukraine (Greek Reporter)

Greece “will never recognize the illegal annexation of Ukraine's territories,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tweeted on Friday. The premier added ...

Follow GR on [Google News ](https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqLQgKIidDQklTRndnTWFoTUtFV2R5WldWcmNtVndiM0owWlhJdVkyOXRLQUFQAQ)and [subscribe here ](https://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=Greekreporter)to our daily email! [latest news](https://greekreporter.com/greek-news) from Greece and the world at [Greekreporter.com](https://greekreporter.com). "America is fully prepared with our NATO allies to defend every single inch of NATO territory, every single inch. The referendums were condemned as illegal by the West and legal experts. “The results are known, well known,” he says. He claimed that the people of the four Ukrainian regions he’s planning to annex have made their decision after the so-called referendums.

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Turkey rejects Russian annexation of Ukraine provinces, says ... (Al Arabiya English)

Turkey on Saturday said Russia's annexation of four Ukrainian provinces was a “grave violation” of international law and called for negotiations to end the.

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Putin's annexation speech and the bankruptcy of Russian nationalism (WSWS)

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a lengthy speech that was meant to justify the ruling regime's actions in annexing four new territories to Russia ...

Only the Trotskyist movement represents a genuine vanguard revolutionary movement of the working class. His reactionary policies reflect the socio-economic role of the ruling Russian oligarchy, which emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union due to the false and blatantly counterrevolutionary policies of Stalinism. This is possible only on the basis of the principles that the Bolsheviks adhered to when they made the October Revolution in 1917. The essence of these principles is to mobilize the working class against capitalist governments throughout the world on a program of world socialist revolution. However, Putin seeks, in the hope of broadening support for the war, to exploit popular hatred of imperialism by portraying his government as a defender of national independence. The only region in which the entire territory is under the control of Russian forces is the Luhansk region. The course of the proxy war between Russia and NATO in Ukraine threatens to escalate into an open conflict in which the use of nuclear weapons is possible. “If I consider my homeland to be Russia, it means that I love, contemplate and think in Russian, sing and speak in Russian; that I believe in the spiritual forces of the Russian people and accept its historical destiny with my instinct and my will. This program is politically incompatible with the reactionary nationalist policies and actions now pursued by the Putin regime. Putin sought to falsely imbue a progressive tone to his national-chauvinist response to the threat posed by US-NATO imperialism. It is likely that the figures were simply taken out of thin air and exaggerated. However, it is necessary to ask: How was it possible to hold a referendum in Zaporozhzhia, when almost half of the territory, including the capital, is controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces?

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Putin hosts annexation ceremony (South Coast Register)

Hundreds of Russian troops in Ukraine have been encircled in one of their main garrisons, on the verge...

Western countries say Moscow is rushing unprepared troops to the frontlines with little or no training and inadequate equipment. Since his troops were forced to flee from Ukraine's Kharkiv province this month, Putin has chosen to escalate the war. The Russian army is trying to escape." Your lives, citizens of Russia," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a Thursday evening address. The Ukrainian army is already in Yampil. Pro-Russian military bloggers reported Ukrainian forces had all but surrounded thousands of Russian troops, cutting off their escape.

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Putin's annexation of Ukraine condemned by the West (Sky News Australia)

The United Nations and Western leaders have condemned Vladimir Putin's annexation of Ukraine. The international community is calling it the most serious ...

G7 Foreign Ministers' Statement on the illegal annexation of ... (Department of State)

Russia must immediately stop its war of aggression, withdraw all of its troops and military equipment from Ukraine, and respect Ukraine's independence, ...

We are unwavering in our support for Ukraine’s right to defend itself against Russia’s war of aggression and its unquestionable right to reclaim its territory from Russia. We reaffirm that the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya as well as Crimea are integral parts of Ukraine. We reiterate our call for all countries to condemn unequivocally Russia’s war of aggression and its attempt to acquire territory by force.

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Turkey rejects Russian annexation of Ukraine provinces (Middle East Eye)

Foreign ministry says Moscow's announced move is a 'grave violation' of international law, urges negotiations.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proclaimed the annexation of the regions on Friday, promising Moscow would triumph in its "special military operation" even as he faced a potentially serious new military reversal. "Turkey did not recognise Russia's annexation of Crimea in an illegitimate referendum in 2014 and has emphasised its strong support to Ukraine's territorial integrity, independence and sovereignty on every occasion," the ministry said. A foreign ministry statement said Ankara had not recognised Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and held the same stance after Russia on Friday declared Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia part of its territory after referendums that were slammed globally as sham.

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Putin's annexation speech declares war on the West, but leaves an ... (Haaretz)

The Russian President's Lengthy Lecture Included Belligerent Rhetoric, Accusations of Colonialism and a Series of Historical 'Facts,' but Not What the World ...

was marked as the archenemy, “the owner of the Kyiv regime,” the superpower enslaving the world “by the power of the dollar and technological tyranny,” an interesting term in and of itself. The nuclear arsenal was mentioned twice in the speech – once when Putin argued that the West is “throwing away nuclear security agreements,” and again when he mentioned that the United States “created a precedent” when it bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also preferred not to address the matter when asked about it on Saturday.) He repeated his old characterization of the Soviet Union’s demise as a “tragedy,” and accused the West of a multi-year plot to break Russia up and “doom its peoples to poverty and extinction.” The lion’s share of the speech, like the one in February, was devoted to historical framing according to Putin’s ideology.. “They brazenly divide the world into their vassals, into so-called civilized countries and everyone else who, according to today’s Western racists, must join the ranks of barbarians and savages,” Putin said. It appears that the seeds of the February speech have been fertilized by rage, offense, and perhaps panic over Russia’s growing isolation, and have now grown to monstrous proportions.

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Putin slams West at annexation ceremony (The Singleton Argus)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has presided over a ceremony at the Kremlin to annex four Ukrainian regions partly...

But we will not discuss the choice of the people in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. In fact, they began to destroy the pan-European energy infrastructure. "As once before, after the Revolution, the borders of the Union republics were carved up from behind the scenes. We call on the Kyiv regime to immediately end hostilities, end the war that they unleashed back in 2014 and return to the negotiating table. Of course, we will work to improve the level of security, and together we will make sure that citizens in the new regions feel the support of the entire people of Russia, the entire country, all the republics, all territories and regions of our vast motherland." "I want the Kyiv authorities and their real masters in the West to hear me, so that they remember this.

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