{"id":182862,"date":"2022-09-30T20:15:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T17:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=182862"},"modified":"2022-09-30T20:15:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T17:15:23","slug":"what-exactly-did-putin-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/what-exactly-did-putin-say\/","title":{"rendered":"What exactly did Putin say?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the formal\u00a0annexation\u00a0of four regions of Ukraine in a speech on Friday.<\/p>\n

Putin and leaders of the four regions signed treaties to annex Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhia \u2013 a move which has been denounced as illegal by Ukraine and Western powers.<\/p>\n

During a 37-minute long speech, Putin spoke about the break up of the Soviet Union, Western \u201ccolonial policy\u201d, nuclear weapons, and his view of Western morals.<\/p>\n

The quotes below have been translated into English from Russian.<\/p>\n

Defending \u2018our land\u2019<\/h3>\n

\u201cWe will defend our land with all the powers and means at our disposal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 1991, at Belovezh Forest, without asking the will of common citizens, representatives of the then-party elites decided to destroy the USSR, and people suddenly found themselves cut off from their motherland. This tore apart and dismembered our nation, becoming a national catastrophe.<\/p>\n

\u201cI admit that they did not fully understand what they were doing, and what consequences this would inevitably lead to in the end. But this is no longer important. There is no Soviet Union, the past cannot be brought back. And Russia today does not need it any more. We are not striving for this.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe battlefield to which fate and history have called us is the battlefield for our people, for great historical Russia, for future generations, our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Message to Kyiv<\/h3>\n

\u201cI want the Kyiv authorities and their real masters in the West to hear me so that they remember this. People living in Luhansk and Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhia are becoming our citizens. Forever.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call on the Kyiv regime to immediately end hostilities, end the war that they unleashed back in 2014 and return to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the formal\u00a0annexation\u00a0of four regions of Ukraine in a speech on Friday. Putin and leaders of the four regions signed treaties to annex Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhia \u2013 a move which has been denounced as illegal by Ukraine and Western powers. During a 37-minute long speech, Putin spoke about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182862"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182864,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182862\/revisions\/182864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}