In an all-out assault on the West, Putin formally introduced the annexation of 4 areas of Ukraine – Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia — and claimed that “that is the desire of hundreds of thousands of individuals.”
“The West … started its colonial coverage again within the Center Ages, after which adopted the slave commerce, the genocide of Indian tribes in America, the plunder of India, of Africa, the wars of England and France towards China … What they did was hooking total nations on medicine, intentionally exterminate total ethnic teams,” mentioned Putin at a Kremlin ceremony in St George’s Corridor.
“For the sake of land and sources, they hunted individuals like animals. That is opposite to the very nature of man, fact, freedom and justice,” he added as he condemned the West for stirring up new conflicts.
Putin mentioned that the West stands prepared to impress revolution in any nation. “Following their objectives, our geopolitical opponents – our opponents as we known as them till fairly just lately – are ready to place anybody, any nation, within the line of fireplace; to show it into the epicenter of a disaster; to impress a “colour revolution” and unleash a massacre,” Putin mentioned in his Russian speech.
“We’ve seen all this on a couple of event. We additionally know that the West works on eventualities to fire up new conflicts within the CIS (Commonwealth of Impartial States) space. However now we have sufficient of them as it’s. Have a look at what’s taking place now between Russia and Ukraine, what’s taking place on the borders of another CIS nations,” he added.
He additionally attacked the West as being ‘satanic’ and hailed ‘conventional’ Russian values.
“Do we actually need in our faculties, from the elementary grades, that youngsters have been imposed perversions that result in degradation and extinction? That they’re taught that moreover a person and a lady there are another genders and are supplied sex-change operations? Do we actually need this for our nation, for our kids? All that is unacceptable for us, now we have our personal, completely different future,” he mentioned as he slammed western values, in response to Reuters translation of the speech.
“There are 4 new areas of Russia,” Putin mentioned in a prolonged speech declaring the annexation of Ukrainian territories within the St George’s Corridor at a Kremlin ceremony. The speech was full of extremely essential rhetoric about Ukraine and its Western allies, reported Al Jazeera.
Putin mentioned the residents within the 4 annexed areas will now be Russia’s “residents without end” whereas denying looking for revival of the Soviet Union by the mentioned annexation.
Furthermore, in a robust assertion, Putin additionally added that Russia would now defend its new territory “with all of the means at its disposal”.