Vladimir Putin’s speech on 30 September 2022 on the formal annexation of southeastern Ukraine with English subtitles. Russia now considers the four territories in southeastern Ukraine as part of the Russian Federation and will, according to Putin, use ‘all means’ at their disposal to defend them. Putin also mentioned that the US had set a ‘precedent’ for the use of nuclear weapons. The United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 in order, they say, to force Japan to surrender. The video includes English subtitles and original audio.
Signing of treaties on the accession of Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics and Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions to Russia. A ceremony for signing the treaties on the accession of the Donetsk People's Republic, the Lugansk People's Republic, the Zaporizhzhia Region and the Kherson Region to the Russian Federation took place in the Grand Kremlin Palace’s St George Hall. Kremlin.ru
President Vladimir Putin has formally recognised four Ukrainian territories as Russian following internationally-condemned referenda. Many world leaders have said they will never accept the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia as part of Russia. Sky News
President Vladimir Putin proclaimed Russia's annexation of a swath of Ukraine on Friday in a speech at the Kremlin but the event was overshadowed by one of Russia's worst battlefield defeats of the war, with one of its main garrisons surrounded. France 24 English
“There are four new regions of Russia,” President Vladimir Putin says in a lengthy speech declaring the annexation of Ukrainian lands at a Kremlin ceremony. Putin says the residents in the four annexed regions will now be Russia’s “citizens forever”. The Russian president also argued it was the “integral right” of people in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia to join Russia, citing the United Nations charter and its affirmation of the right to self-determination. Ukraine and its Western allies have dismissed the move as a meaningless war tactic. Al Jazeera English
Russian President Vladimir Putin has formally announced the Kremlin’s intention to annex nearly a fifth of Ukraine in blatant violation of international law. CNN
Vladimir Putin signed “accession treaties" to illegally annex occupied Ukrainian territory in a sharp escalation of his war - before taking centre stage in Moscow's Red Square. At an organised concert in Russia's capital, the Russian president was joined by other Russian leaders who all sang the national anthem before addressing crowds. "Russia does not only open the door to our brothers and sisters but it also opens its heart to them. Welcome home," Putin said. He made use of his short speech to double down on previous claims made by him to justify the invasion of Ukraine. It comes after the president vowed to annex parts of Ukraine after hosting a series of sham referendums. ITV News
Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, called for peace talks with Kyiv as he announced the formal annexation of four Ukrainian regions on Friday. Speaking to hundreds of Russia’s top politicians in the Kremlin’s lavish St George's Hall, Putin said voters in the referendums had made “an unequivocal choice” to join the Russian Federation. “We suggest returning to the talks but we’re not going to discuss the choice that people there have made, and Russia is not going to betray it,” he said. Kyiv and the West have dismissed the votes in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson as a sham, but Putin said those living in the four regions “are becoming our citizens for good”. The Telegraph
Putin Speech 30 September 2022 | English Subtitles
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