The inhabitants of the southern and eastern regions of Ukraine annexed by Russia will be “our citizens forever”, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday during a speech in the Kremlin.
“The inhabitants of Luhansk and Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhya become our citizens forever,” the Russian president told the country’s political elite. “People voted for our common future,” he added.
“We call on the kyiv regime to immediately cease firing, all hostilities and return to the negotiating table,” Putin also said during his speech to the government, deputies and senators, and others. representatives of the Russian state.
Russian President Vladimir Putin assured that his country “does not aspire” to restore the USSR, despite the offensive in Ukraine and the annexation of the four Ukrainian regions following “referendums” denounced by kyiv and the West.
“The USSR is gone, the past cannot be brought back. And Russia doesn’t need that today, we don’t aspire to it,” he said.
“The West is ready to do anything to preserve the neocolonial system which allows it to parasitize and, in reality, to plunder the whole world”, denounced the Russian president. “They want to see us as a colony,” he further castigated.
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