Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting on agricultural issues via videoconference in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. | Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP
The official annexation was widely expected following the votes that wrapped up on Tuesday in the areas under Russian occupation in Ukraine and after Moscow claimed residents overwhelmingly supported for their areas to formally become part of Russia. “This is the opposite of free and fair elections,” Baerbock said. “And this is the opposite of peace. It’s dictated peace. As long as this Russian diktat prevails in the occupied territories of Ukraine, no citizen is safe. No citizen is free.”
Ukraine too has dismissed the referendums as illegitimate, saying it has every right to retake the territories, a position that has won support from Washington. “The rescuers have taken her from under the rubble, she was asleep when the Russian missile hit,” said local administrator Valentyn Reznichenko.
“The collapse of the Lyman pocket will likely be highly consequential to the Russian grouping in northern Donetsk and western Luhansk oblasts and may allow Ukrainian troops to threaten Russian positions along the western Luhansk” region, the institute said.
Kremlin did this as an excuse for tactical nuclear weapons if Ukraine invaded these areas
The United States of America on July 7 1898 did the Annexation of Hawaii a Sovereign country and no one said a thing.why?
Why isn’t UN telling Putin “in your dreams comrade'! Biden should strangle Russia, if he had half the balls Trump had!
I guess this is not legal than Kosovo
The West has no proof that referendums were either illegal or rigged!
It was absurdly false and illegal. I hope that all of Ukraine is United under Kyiv soon and that the invaders get beaten back
Gas pipeline has a leak.
The EU and the US wanted to divide Russia into many states, but Russia decided to expand its borders. Biden's handlers are in a panic.😜🤣
Ukraine should announce the same about some Russian territories.
Annex? Thought the Citizens of those regions voted to secede from a country in the complete control of Semitic Colonizers and become a member of a federation ruled by native Europeans.
They can claim they annex the territories but they will not be able to keep them.
That's fine....Ukraine will 'annex' them back with US/EU weapons soon enough.
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Neville Chamberlain's appeasement all over again. History repeats itself.
Can we just get rid of this guy already
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