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Extracts from Putin's speech at annexation ceremony

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday presided over a ceremony at the Kremlin to annex four Ukrainian regions partly occupied by his forces. Following are extracts from his speech, translated by Reuters:

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Russian President Vladimir Putin announces the annexation of four Ukrainian regions

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 denounced as illegitimate.

ABC News

Putin says Russia not seeking to revive Soviet Union

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday denied seeking to revive the Soviet Union, moments after announcing Moscow would annex four Ukrainian provinces following "referendums" decried in Kyiv and the West as a sham.

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Putin says Russia has 'four new regions' as he announces annexation of Ukrainian territory

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Russia had "four new regions" in a speech in the Kremlin on Friday in which he outlined Russia's annexation of four Ukrainian regions that Moscow's forces have partially seized during a seven-month conflict with Ukraine.

Reuters

Putin claims 15% of Ukraine is now part of Russia

Putin's military position has weakened dramatically.

Axios

Vladimir Putin illegally seizes four Ukrainian regions he vows to defend 'by any means'

Vladimir Putin's annexed Russian-occupied areas of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in a move which has been widely condemned in the West with UN chief Antonio Guterres calling it a 'dangerous escalation'

Daily Mirror

The Ferguson Report: Ukraine referendum voted on by last three people left alive

The 1 per cent who voted against Vladimir Putin's annexation vote will receive re-education from a firing squad.

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Putin’s annexation of Ukrainian regions changes ‘nothing’, Ukraine’s FM says

In an interview with FRANCE 24 from Kyiv, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba struck a defiant tone, saying that the planned annexation this Friday by Russia of four Ukrainian regions following so-called referendums changes "nothing" for Ukraine and the world. The top Ukrainian diplomat said that the annexations and the…

France 24

Abducted, beaten, tortured: What happened to Ukrainians who refused to vote in Russia’s referendums

Ordinary residents describe being held in solitary confinement in occupied territories Moscow wants to absorb into Russia

The Independent UK

Kremlin says any attack on annexed territory will be an attack on Russia

The Kremlin said on Friday that attacks against any part of the swathe of Ukraine that President Vladimir Putin was about to annex would be considered aggression against Russia itself, adding that Russia would fight to take the whole of the eastern Donbas region.

Reuters

Putin informs Russian parliament of plan to annex Ukrainian regions

The head of Russia's lower chamber of parliament said on Friday that President Vladimir Putin had notified the house about plans to admit four regions of Ukraine into Russia - a technical step towards Russia's annexation of the territories.

Reuters

Kremlin: Any Attack on Annexed Territory Will be an Attack on Russia

Asharq Al-Awsat

Emily Sheffield: Voters are unlikely to forget Liz Truss’s gamble with Britain’s economy

“Are you ashamed of what you’ve done?” This was just one of many barbed questions the Prime Minster had to face down yesterday in a painful round of regional BBC interviews. This was planned to persuade the country and allay fears. Instead, it was a car crash. Anxiety in the…

Evening Standard

Factbox-The four regions that Russia is poised to annex from Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin will proclaim the annexation of four Ukrainian regions at a Kremlin ceremony on Friday, a major escalation in the seven-month war. Ukraine and the West have denounced the moves - as they did with Moscow's 2014 seizure of Crimea - as illegal seizures after what they…

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Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 219

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 219th day, we take a look at the main developments.

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Half of Russians feel anxious, angry about mobilisation: Poll

Forty-seven percent of respondents express anxiety following President Vladimir Putin’s troop call-up announcement.

Daily Mirror

Terror in Putin's makeshift army as drunk 'cannon fodder' conscripts turn on officer

Russian citizens have woken up after Vladimir Putin's call for mass mobilisation and now realise the extent of the lies they've been told since the start of the president's illegal invasion in February, Western intelligence officials believe

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Martin Schram: When Bill covered up for Boris

The world has watched in shock, outrage and disbelief, as Russia’s President Vladimir Putin brazenly invaded his sovereign neighbor Ukraine — in a full-speed-ahead aggression that ended up with Putin cornering himself and entrapping much of the world in the mess he single-handedly created.

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The Independent UK

At least 25 killed in Russian shelling as Putin set to annex Ukrainian regions

Another 30 people injured in the attack on a humanitarian convoy

The Independent UK

Ukraine-Russia war: What is the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and how might the crisis impact it?

Lucrative natural gas pipeline running to Germany under Baltic Sea blocked by chancellor Olaf Scholz in response to Vladimir Putin’s aggression

Asharq Al-Awsat

UK's PM: Putin Cannot Alter International Borders Using 'Brute Force'

Britain will never accept the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia as "anything other than Ukrainian territory" Prime Minister Liz Truss said, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin was violating international law. "Putin cannot be allowed to alter international borders using brute force.

The Independent UK

Truss condemns Putin’s ‘illegal’ plans to annex Ukrainian regions

The Russian leader is preparing to annex four Ukrainian regions into Russia, amid international outcry.

Daily Record

Scots Tory secretary claims Liz Truss's tax cuts are 'small' as he takes swipe at the BBC

Since the Chancellor's mini budget on Friday the economy has tanked due to the unfunded tax cuts which run into the tens of billions.

France 24

‘Danger to the regime?’ Russia faces ethnic minority anti-mobilisation protests

Russia is seeing a wave of demonstrations in areas with high ethnic minority populations against President Vladimir Putin’s call for “partial mobilisation”. Analysts say this approach is undermining the Kremlin’s legitimacy among these groups and is likely to give Russia poorly motivated soldiers for its war against Ukraine.

Reuters

Nobel Peace Prize could condemn Ukraine war or highlight climate change

This year's Nobel Peace Prize could condemn the war in Ukraine by recognising opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the volunteers who have helped civilians, or Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who ranks high on bookmakers' lists.

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