Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin formally annexed occupied parts of Ukraine to Russia, bypassing international law. Putin signed treaties on the inclusion of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson in Russia at an event in the Kremlin. After which the tension increased further in the war that continued for seven months.
Putin said the newly included areas would be protected using “available means”. He urged Ukraine to sit down for peace talks but immediately warned that he would not discuss the return of Ukrainian territories that had been included in Russia. Ukraine, on the other hand, rejected Russia’s offer and said that as long as Putin remains president, there will be no talks.
In his address, Putin fiercely targeted Western countries. He said that the West has looted countries like India against the values of truth, freedom, and justice. The West began its colonial policy in the Middle Ages and then took part in the slave trade, the genocide of Indian tribes in America, the plundering of India and Africa, and the wars of England and France against China.
Putin said the West is deliberately destroying entire ethnic groups. They (West) hunted people like animals for the sake of land and resources, he said. It is contrary to the nature of man, truth, liberty, and justice.
Putin denounced the West for provoking new conflicts. Putin said that the West is ready to provoke revolution in any country. Our geopolitical adversaries are ready to set any country on fire for their goals. To turn it into a crisis center and are ready to incite revolution and bloodshed.
The Russian President said, we have seen all this on more than one occasion. We also know that the West operates on scenarios to provoke new conflicts in the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) region. But we have enough power. But look at what is happening now between Russia and Ukraine, and what is happening on the borders of some other CIS countries.
He said, do we really want in our schools, from the primary classes, that children have been imposed with deformities that lead to decline and extinction? That they were taught that there was a gender other than a man and a woman and that they were offered a sex-change operation? Do we really want this for our country, for our children? All this is unacceptable to us, we have our own, different future.”
