(ANSA-AFP) - MOSCOW, SEP 30 - Russian President Vladimir
Putin on Friday urged Kyiv to stop all military action in
Ukraine at a ceremony to formally annex four Moscow-occupied
Ukraine regions. "We call on the Kyiv regime to immediatly stop
fighting and stop all hostilities... and return to the
negotiating table," Putin said during a televised speech at the
Kremlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday warned the West
that the people of four Moscow-occupied Ukrainian regions were
"our citizens forever" as he prepared to formally annex them at
a Kremlin ceremony. "I want to say this to the Kyiv regime and
its masters in the West: People living in the Lugansk, Donetsk,
Kherson and Zaporizhzhia (regions) are becoming our citizens
forever," Putin said, adding that they had made a "unambiguous
choice" to join Russia.
Putin on Friday accused the West of organising blasts that
resulted in multiple gas leaks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines
from Russia to Europe. "Sanctions are not enough for the West,
they have switched to sabotage... by organising explosions on
the Nord Stream international gas pipelines that run along the
bottom of the Baltic Sea," Putin said during a televised speech
at a Kremlin ceremony to annex four Moscow-occupied regions of
Ukraine. (ANSA-AFP).
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