Excerpts from Putin's Address at the signing ceremony

Excerpts from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address at the signing of the agreements on admission of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions to Russia:

✅ The referendums have concluded and their results are well-known. The people have made their choice. Their decisive decision.

📜 Undoubtedly, it is their unalienable right, which is enshrined in Article 1 of the UN Charter – “the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples”.

✊🏻 There’s nothing more powerful than determination of millions of people, who share the same culture, religion, traditions and language to consider themselves a part of Russia. Whose ancestors lived in a unified state for centuries.

🔙 There’s nothing more powerful that the decision of these people to return to their true homeland.

🇷🇺 People who live in Lugansk and Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporozhye are becoming our citizens.

❗️ Forever.