“We call on the Kyiv regime to immediately stop the war, all hostilities, the war it unleashed back in 2014, and return to the negotiating table. We are ready for this. This has been said more than once. But the choice of the people in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson we will not discuss. It has been made, and Russia will not betray it,” Putin said.
According to the leader of the aggressor power, Ukrainian authorities must treat this “expression of will” with respect. “Only this can pave the way to peace,” Putin claimed.
The president also stressed that Russia would defend its land “with all the forces and means available to us.”
As Ukrinform reported earlier, on September 23-27, Russia held a sham “referendum” spectacle in the occupied territory of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions regarding the accession of these areas to Russia.
Leaders of Western nations have already declared that any of Russia’s sham referenda held in Ukraine would be deemed illegitimate.
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