{"id":63643,"date":"2022-09-30T07:43:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T12:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63643"},"modified":"2022-09-30T07:43:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T12:43:58","slug":"watch-live-putin-declares-annexation-of-eastern-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63643","title":{"rendered":"Watch Live: Putin Declares Annexation Of Eastern Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__Eyn7V\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__MEgbb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/watch-live-putin-declares-annexation-eastern-ukraine\">Watch Live: Putin Declares Annexation Of Eastern Ukraine<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__t4rGu\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__6iJOI NodeBody_container__hI8PI\">\n<p>Just ahead of a Friday ceremony declaring the official annexations of the four occupied Ukrainian regions which held controversial referendums,\u00a0Russian President Vladimir Putin\u00a0on Thursday signed two decrees which recognized the &#8220;independence&#8221; of Kherson and\u00a0Zaporozhye regions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Recognize the state sovereignty and independence&#8221;\u00a0of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions\u00a0&#8220;effective from the day of signing,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0two decrees\u00a0stated. This paved the way for Friday&#8217;s ceremony where he&#8217;s expected to give a major speech which will incorporate those two territories plus Donetsk and Luhansk. WATCH Putin&#8217;s speech declaring annexation live:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yIuN6v_cmNM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to Russian\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/563762-putin-zaporozhye-kherson-independence\/\">state media<\/a>, &#8220;In the documents, Putin refers to the universally recognized principles and norms of international law, and the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, enshrined in the UN Charter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to this Kremlin perspective, Western officials and media sources are\u00a0<strong>slamming the big &#8216;land grab&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; which comes at a moment the entirety of these territories are not yet under Russian military control.\u00a0A White House statement said in response to the &#8220;sham&#8221; referendums, &#8220;<strong>The United States will never recognize Ukrainian territory as anything other than part of Ukraine<\/strong>. Russia\u2019s referenda are a sham \u2013 a false pretext to try to annex parts of Ukraine by force in flagrant violation\u00a0of international law, including the United Nations Charter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Putin said in a televised meeting with officials on Tuesday as voting closed in the four regions: &#8220;<strong>Saving people in the territories where this referendum is taking place<\/strong>&#8230;\u00a0<strong>is the focus of the attention of our entire society and of the entire country<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Live: Putin Declares Annexation Of Eastern Ukraine Just ahead of a Friday ceremony declaring the official annexations of the four occupied Ukrainian regions which held controversial referendums,\u00a0Russian President Vladimir Putin\u00a0on Thursday signed two decrees which recognized the &#8220;independence&#8221; of Kherson and\u00a0Zaporozhye regions. &#8220;Recognize the state sovereignty and independence&#8221;\u00a0of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions\u00a0&#8220;effective from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[33202,33201,694,821,857,4318],"class_list":["post-63643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-annexation","tag-referendums","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63644,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63643\/revisions\/63644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}