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Putin urges Kyiv to 'immediately' cease military action

People of Ukraine occupied regions are 'our citizens forever'

30 September, 16:25
(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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