“What is there to hide? And the Sea of Azov has become the internal sea of the Russian Federation. Peter I was still fighting his way to the Sea of Azov,” Putin added.
Adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak on Twitter reacted to the statements of the Russian president, noting that Russia is waging a war of conquest of a genocidal type, and Putin directly admitted this.
“The masks have been thrown off. Forget ‘NATO provocations’, ‘denazification’ and other forgotten casus belli. Putin confirmed what was obvious to the whole world: Russia is waging a genocidal war of conquest to conquer new territories, why Peter I so bequeathed Who else wants a “settlement”?, wrote.
The masks are off. Forget “NATO provocations”, “denazification” and other forgotten casus belli. Putin confirmed what was obvious to the whole world: Russia is waging a war of genocidal aggression to seize new territory because Peter I ordered it. Does anyone else want a “deal”?
— Mykhailo Podolyak (@Podolyak_M) December 7, 2022
In 2014-2015, Russia, under the leadership of Putin, first illegally annexed the Ukrainian Crimea, and then occupied part of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, “appointing representatives of the DPR and LPR militants to manage” the occupied regions
September 30, 2022 Putin signed “treaties” on “entry” into the Russian Federation temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions after illegal pseudo-referendums organized by Russia.
October 2 “contracts” recognized as “legitimate” by the Constitutional Court of the Russian FederationOctober 3 them approved by the State Duma of the Russian Federationa October 4 – Federation Council of the Russian FederationOctober 5 Putin approved the illegal annexation occupied Ukrainian territories
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky 4 October recognized Putin’s decrees as null and void on the recognition of “independent” Crimea and four regions of Ukraine.
APU every day unoccupy part of those Ukrainian landswhich, according to the statements of the invaders, were “attached” to the Russian Federation.