The ceremony took place in the St. George Hall of the Kremlin.
- The ceremony was attended by the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin, head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik, the head of the Zaporozhye Regional State Administration Yevgeny Balitsky and the head of the Kherson Regional State Administration Vladimir Saldo.
Vladimir Putin addressed the Kiev regime:
“People in four regions become our citizens forever. We call on the Kiev regime to immediately cease fire, end all hostilities, return to the negotiating table, we are ready for this. But we will not discuss the choice of people in Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson. Their choice has been made, and Russia will not betray it,” Putin said.
Putin also addressed the Kiev’s Western patrons:
“Millions of ruined, twisted destinies. They don’t care. The main thing is to get their benefits. Greed is the real reason for the hybrid war against Russia. They want to rob, to see us as a crowd of soulless slaves.”
“They don’t need Russia at all, we need it. Russia will always be Russia. We will protect our values and our homeland even now.” Putin concluded.
- “The choice of people causes wild anger in the West. The West has never had any moral right to claim about the freedom of democracy. They brazenly divide the world into their vassals and everyone else who, according to Western racists, should join the list of savages. Entire nations and states are branded. What, if not racism, is Russophobia?”
- “The whole Western world order is deceitful and hypocritical. The USA is the only country in the world that destroyed two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki — by the way, it created a precedent. <…> It left a terrible mark in the memory of the peoples of Korea and Vietnam. In fact, Germany and South Korea are still being occupied.”
- “They export bread from Ukraine. Where is it going? Yes, to the same European countries. Another swindle and outright deception.”
- “Washington is demanding more and more sanctions against Russia, and most European politicians are forced to agree. Although they understand that it is going to deindustrialize Europe. This is not servility, but a direct betrayal of the peoples.”
“The Anglo-Saxons have moved to diversions, starting to destroy the pan-European energy infrastructure. Who did this? Who benefits from it, he did.”
- “To get out of a new tangle of contradictions, they need to break Russia to plug their holes. They can bring the system to collapse or use the formula “war will justify everything”.
“The neocolonial system is doomed. But its owners will cling to the end.”
Putin said that the world has entered a period of revolutionary transformations, they are fundamental, new centers for further development are being formed, they represent the majority of the world community and are ready not only to declare their interests and protect them.
- On September 23-27, the referenda were held in the four regions. As a result of the vote, people said ‘yes’ to become part of the Russian Federation.
- After the referenda, the heads of these territories appealed to Putin with a request for inclusion in Russia.
- On September 30, they arrived in Moscow to sign documents.
- On September 29, Vladimir Putin signed decrees recognizing the independence of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
- The LPR and the DPR were recognized the independent states on February 21.
Source: SOUTHFRONT