Putin signs treaties to annex parts of Ukraine

(30 Sep 2022)
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RUSSIAN POOL
Moscow – 30 September 2022
1. Wide of audience listening to Russian President Vladimir Putin
HEADLINE TEXT: Putin signs treaties to annex parts of Ukraine
2. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir Putin, Russian president:
"They've made a choice to be with their people, be with the homeland, to live its fate, to win with it. The truth is with us. Russia is with us."
3. Various of people standing and applauding
ANNOTATION: In a ceremony in the Kremlin's opulent St. George's Hall, Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed treaties to annex parts of Ukraine into Russia.
ANNOTATION: Putin's move defies Western powers and marks a sharp escalation of the seven-month conflict with neighboring Ukraine.
4. Wide of the Russian-installed leaders of four occupied Ukrainian regions coming to sign treaties
ANNOTATION: The signing ceremony comes three days after the completion of Kremlin-orchestrated "referendums" on joining Russia.
5. Wide of the Russian-installed leaders of four occupied Ukrainian regions sitting at table to sign treaties
ANNOTATION: The "referendums" were dismissed by Kyiv and the West as a "sham" intended to justify Russia's efforts to seize Ukrainian territory.
6. Various of Putin signing treaties on annexation of Donetsk region
ANNOTATION: Putin signed the accession treaties with Russian-installed leaders of four occupied Ukrainian regions.
7. Wide of the Russian-installed leaders of four occupied Ukrainian regions sitting at table
ANNOTATION: The separatist Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine have been backed by Moscow since declaring independence in 2014, weeks after…"
8. Wide of Putin signing treaty
9. Wide of the Russian-installed leaders of four occupied Ukrainian regions sitting at table and applauding
ANNOTATION: "… the annexation of Ukraine's strategic Crimean Peninsula."
10. Wide of Putin and the Russian-installed leaders of four occupied Ukrainian regions standing and listening to Russian national anthem
ANNOTATION: The southern Kherson region and part of neighboring Zaporizhzhia have been under Russian control since the latest conflict began in February.
11. Zoom in of Putin listening to Russian national anthem
12. Wide of audience standing and listening to national anthem
13. Wide of the separatist head of Zaporizhzhia region, Yevhen Balytskyi, listening to Russian national anthem
14. Wide of Putin and the Russian-installed leaders of four occupied Ukrainian regions standing and listening to Russian national anthem
15. Pull out of audience applauding and politicians standing
16. Various of Putin and the Russian-installed leaders of four occupied Ukrainian regions huddling and saying UPSOUND (Russian): "Russia."
STORYLINE:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed treaties to annex parts of Ukraine into Russia, defying Western powers.
In a ceremony in the Kremlin's opulent white-and-gold St. George's Hall, Putin and the Russian-installed leaders in the four regions of Ukraine put their names on treaties for them to join Russia, in a sharp escalation of the seven-month conflict.
The signing ceremony comes three days after the completion of Kremlin-orchestrated "referendums" on joining Russia that were dismissed by Kyiv and the West as a "sham."
The separatist Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine have been backed by Moscow since declaring independence in 2014, weeks after the annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.

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[hattron]

I wonder not if, but when and who'll put him down.

[snorunnermodified]

You would think by now they would have a box for Putin to stand on for photos.

[beyondeternity]

Wonderful . I hope those poor western countries should have learned their lesson. The can't win against Russia. Especially in winter.

[stefan]

I just signed a decree and annexed the parking lot at my neighbor's house. It's ours now... Slava Ukraini!

[douglloyd]

Who signed the treaty for the Ukraine?

[casebarreoltt]

Territories were ACCEDED TO, not ANNEXED BY, Russia via overwhelming majority vote of the people of those territories.

[juliadixon]

Signed treaties with who? With Zelensky? That's who you'd need to sign treaties with to legally Anne's those territories.

[HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings]

Mind Begs the Question:
To support & aid an Apartheid State
Righteous, Evil?

[silverhawk]

Gone now... swept away. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war, and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel they were nothing. They'd built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded.

[trumps-a-hoe]

Signs treaties with who?
Ukraine didn't sign any treaties, Putin's posturing means nothing.

[willrobinson]

This happened 8 years ago Donbass has been Russian citizens for

[Alex-zinb]

i signed a treaty that anna kendrick is my wife. so there!

[cxdksug]

Люди сделали свой выбор ! украинский фашизм НЕ ПРОЙДёТ ! 🙏🛡️

[alexandershaw]

All it takes is one well placed 9mm round to end it all..

[cxdksug]

🎉🎉🎉💪🇷🇺💤💤💤💤✌️😎🛡️ С НАМИ БОГ, ЗА НАМИ ПРАВДА !!! 👁️

[kaczkalipka]

Bravo Putin! Go on! Long live Russia! Viva la Russia! 👍👍👍❤❤❤

[detonationpyrotechnics]

This will be his way of not actually losing to Ukraine and possibly a way to legally nuke Ukraine by saying its his territory

[OO-nbkt]

Welcome to NATO, UKrane! You will prosper like West Berlin did under NATO! Look how Russian people ran when Putin started the draft!

[dragonore]

Congratulations to the people of those four areas. The people spoke and are now part of Russia.

[islandbirdw]

Watch them each terrified to openly oppose the new Russian Czar