2022 Kremlin speech of Vladimir Putin

On 30 September 2022, Russian president Vladimir Putin gave a 37-minute long speech to both chambers of the Russian parliament about the annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts into Russia. He spoke in the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace in the Moscow Kremlin. The tone of the speech was strongly anti-American and anti-Western, to the point where observers described it as his most anti-Western speech to date.
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Following the results of recent referendums on the annexation of occupied territories of Ukraine by Russia - which were condemned as shams by independent observers and the international community - Putin said that it was the "will of millions of people" in these territories to become part of Russia and to become Russian citizens "forever". He cited Article 1 of the UN charter as justification for his claims.
Within the speech, Putin spoke about the colonial past of the Western world, denouncing its "totalitarianism, despotism and apartheid", threatening religion and morality, accusing the West of Satanism.<ref name=":1" />
Putin also blamed the recent Nord Stream gas leaks on the "Anglo-Saxons"<ref name":1" /> and said that the use of nuclear weapons by the US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki "set a precedent".<ref name":1" />

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