Ukrainian officials dismissed Putin’s remarks, saying the future of the Ukraine was being decided on the battlefields of Ukraine.
The Kremlin-organized votes in Ukraine and the nuclear warning are an attempt by Putin to avoid more defeats in Ukraine that could threaten his 22-year rule. Russia on Friday also pounded Ukrainian cities with missiles, rockets and suicide drones, with one strike reported to have killed 25 people. The salvos together amounted to the heaviest barrage that Russia has unleashed for weeks.
“People understand that the politics is now on the battlefield,” he added. “What’s important is who advances and who retreats. In that sense, the Kremlin cannot offer anything сomforting to the Russians.”A Ukrainian counter-offensive has deprived Moscow of mastery on the military fields of battle. Its hold of the Luhansk region appears increasingly shaky, as Ukrainian forces make inroads there, with the pincer assault on Lyman.
The general prosecutor’s office said 25 people were killed and 50 wounded. The strike left deep impact craters and sent shrapnel tearing through the humanitarian convoy’s lined-up vehicles, killing their passengers. Nearby buildings were demolished. Trash bags, blankets and, for one victim, a blood-soaked towel, were used to cover bodies.
Putin was expected to give a major speech at the ceremony to fold Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia into Russia. The Kremlin planned for the region’s pro-Moscow administrators to sign annexation treaties in the ornate St. George’s Hall of the palace in Moscow that is Putin’s seat of power.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
Let Democracy work. All those people want to be Russian.
Where's the evidence it was a 'sham vote'?
Signs treaties? Can’t happen because it’s an illegal war with a sham vote. StandWithUkraine
He's still better than zelensky.
How many representatives did the AP have at the referendums?
Like the Ukrainian are going to let this stand, now pewtin will look more foolish to the Russian people
Lol, “sham vote.” You’re pathetic at journalism & complete shite at propaganda.
the information war is in full swing
we defend democracy by bombing people and killing people around the world. And we won't allow who defend real democracy because people killing will be stopped.
Oh, now you guys want to talk about “sham votes, rigged elections, and political corruption.” When it doesn’t suit your global western caliphate. ZelenskyyWarCriminal NATOTerroistOrganization CIAFascist USEmpire
Putin Must Be 'Taken Out!' Aside from his War Crimes Ukraine and Others, Russia Was Behind MH370 Disappearance.His Shooting Down of MH17 Was Verification for Me ! They Were Tracking All MH Flights! They Calculated that MH Was Probably a Easy Target with Zero Ramifications.
Rogue dictator.
Shouldn't headlines be Putin signs make pretend document that mean nothing?
Is it just me or does that small man have a touch of the downs going on in his face?
Putin the thief...
Ol' piglet is getting frazzled.
Funny no mention of ‘sham votes’ pertaining to Biden.
Morning_Joe Putie can absorb all the land his little, itty bitty mind thinks is Mother Russia’s, just by thinking about it… what reality do these characters live in
When we whupping his ass? Soon right? RussiaNeedsABeating
So just to be clear it's okay to question votes again? You guys flip this switch on and off so often it's hard to keep track.
Ukraine needs to annex Russia
Putin is using the old Make Russia Great Again strategy…
I never wanted any land in Russia. But if that is the law of the land, I am signing a treaty for Moscow today. I am not there yet, but who knows? Wait for me!
But democracy!!! 🤦🏻♂️
نفس القانون الدولي البشري الخاطئ الذي تنتهكه أمريكا كل يوم ؟
sham mid Eastisrael
Well, at least the press isn’t falling for his BS anymore. That’s an important improvement.
Don’t worry US will send another $350 Billion and Republicans will agree and say the hell with US poor students 🤨😡 hypocrites
tinsonhk Simply a thug
nixonron Sham votes mean nothing, this is a cover-up to an invasion ARM UKRAINE WITH EVERYTHING THEY REQUEST Slava Ukraini!
Brah, thought you went there to terminate Nazism. Imagine if our forefathers went to WWII to fight Nazis, annexed 4 regions of Germany then called it a day
Couldn't possibly be a sham I heard he used dominion voting machine for the most secure referendum ever.
If anyone in those regions want to be part of Russia let them pickup and move out of Ukraine and join with Putin.
Hang up the Gloves
Time for some more sunflower fields in the east
Straight forward fight now....RUSSIA vs NATO...NATO can't hide behind Ukranian skirts...funny enough...it should lead to less Ukranian loss of life....
Russian scum
You know what will stop this? 12 Billion dollars to Ukraine!! 🤡🤡🤡
You omitted “illegally” from your headline. Try it again for 1/2 marks.
International law or American rules?
So who countersigned those treaties? Trump?
He also annexed Mar-a Lago.
'Sham vote'
Congratulations to the people of the south! May you live in peace! Putin spittin some truth!
Bullies don't follow norms or laws. They only seek peace after they are defeated.
Ok now go live there and call it Putin and let Russians have a life.
He needs the world to put him in his place
“is the will of millions of people,” more correctly said, the will of one in a million.
The russian federation expands with invasion… and sucks si badly at that that it declares it won while it’s retreating and its own soldiers are fleeing russia.
Does what he wants...
Complete violation of international law regarding territorial integrity and sovereignty. Very sad day for humanity & worse still, a bad imperialistic precedent for times to come!
In a ceremony at the Kremlin, Putin and the Russian-installed leaders in four regions put their names on treaties for them to join Russia. It marks a sharp escalation of the seven-month conflict.
Let him do it, especially if it means peace and de-escalating from nuclear war.
What international law is israhell using in Palestine lands?
Why are the referendums a sham? the people living there for 100's of years are ethnic Russians, They have been brutalized and exploited by Ukraine's Nazi military and they have been fighting for 8 years to separate from Ukraine.
SpiritualKnowledge_OnNavratri Can Durgaji FORGIVE OUR Sins? Yajur Ved Adhyay 5 Mantra 32 states Only Supreme God Kabir Saheb Ji can forgive our sins. - Spiritual Leader Sant Rampal Ji Maharaj Ji
And he's threatening the world with nukes. What a fucking pathetic tyrant
'sham vote' lol
Ok, so now what?
cry more
The real danger of Vladimir Putin’s decision to annex Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk, is that he will inevitable look weak, unable to defend Mother Russia herself, and if a Russian leader can’t defend its own territory, what good is he? UkraineWar RussianWarCrimes
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