We're watching comments from Putin carefully as he gets set to deliver a speech on annexing parts of Ukraine.
- Annexes four new regions of Russia
- people choice to join Russia is predicated on history
- we will always remember those who did not put up with a neo-Nazi coup in Ukraine in 2014
- people were torn from their motherland when the Soviet Union broke up
- Russia does not seek to bring back Soviet Union
- We call on Kyiv regime to immediately stop military actions in return to negotiation table. We are ready for talks
- Kyiv should respect the will people
- West continues looking for ways to weaken Russia
- Russia is leading a hybrid war against Russia
- our development, culture is a threat to the West
- West does not need Russia, but we need Russia
- Russia will defend its values and motherland
- Many treaties with West have been broken
- West has no moral rights to speak about democracy
- West elites are the same as they always have been; the colonizers
- United States use nuclear weapons in Japan twice and created the precedent by using nuclear weapons
- West provoked mass migration
- European seeds to the United States, which demands a new sanctions against Russia
- grain from Ukraine goes to Europe rather than to the poor nations of the world