Russia Announces Plans To Annex 4 Regions In Ukraine

The Kremlin announced plans to annex four Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine on Friday after a vote was denounced by the U.S. as a “sham.”

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[monferno]

That's okay. I've just signed a paper I wrote after I voted in favor of myself to annex every other street in Moscow. I have also just decided that everyone entering my annexed territory must say "Putin is a donkey" in a thick British accent.

This decision was difficult to make, I assure you. It has the same legal foundation as Russia's claim on Ukrainian territory.

[tomm]

Oh look. Now Russia will claim it isn't invading Ukraine, it's the other way around. Magic!

[elguapo]

Lol, 5 comments, 4 Russian bots and one scam spammer.

[commandoslayer]

Please, answer my questions! Now that these regions are officially part of the Russian Federation, an attack on them would escalate tensions due to being an attack on Russia itself. But didn't Ukraine attack Russia and killed Russian civilians in Belgorod and nothing happened? How will this be any different?

[FarmhouseRailroad]

Seems like Hitler did something similar to this in with the annexation of Austria in 1938.

[jormugand]

It would be hilarious if Ukraine announced plans to hold referendums in Moscow and St. Petersburg promising if it passes that its citizens will be exempted from a draft to fight in Ukraine.

[irinasorokina]

Completely My friends from Kherson - NOBODY voted over their. NOBODY!!!

[ShortyMcvay]

😂😂 Putin's backing Russia into a corner they'll never get out of 🤦

[Lochwra]

Let Russia have them. They belonged to the Soviet Union let them have them back. End the war. Stop supporting the war.

[colejohnson]

They cant just annex another countries land. We have seen this before back in the 1930s and 40s with Germany. This is insane

[Jesusandbible]

Maybe they have a long range plan to annex the Ukraine out of contact with the Black Sea, by moving westward with their annexing plan?

[jeffreylorenzana]

I’m sorry you can’t just annex land from other countries that’s not right that’s not OK

[isthiakahsan]

What's next? Will he sign another decree declaring annexation of Alaska?

[oceandrop]

No one truely owns anything, that word just means having an ability to defend it from someone else taking it. Russia owns territory if it can defend, that is for anyone and anything.

[connecticutcollectibles]

Russia will look to annex the Russian section of New York City.

[howzitcruzinthrulife]

Soooo it’s a problem when Russia annexed Ukraine. But it’s not a problem when America annexed the Kingdom of Hawaii.
🤔

[Arc_Viper]

A thief gets caught in a Walmart red-handed trying to steal a tv. When they caught him they asked why he tried to steal a tv. He replied, "I'm just trying to annex the media section!"

[johnriley]

Russia's Invasion and Annexation are not legal even by Russian standards and definitely not by anyone else's standards. Let's start with the 1994 de-nuclearization agreement of Ukraine.
The Budapest Memorandum was an agreement signed in 1994 that provided assurances to Ukraine if it agreed to give up its nuclear weapons. The security agreement had the following assurances:
[1] The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine
[2] The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine
[3] The Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon State party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used.
This was signed by Sergey Lavrov, Representative of The Russian Federation and Boris Yeltsin of the Russian Federation. Apparently, The Russian Federation and Sergey Lavrov do not keep promises. The United States of America does keep its promises and will continue to provide assistance to Ukraine.

[rharugu]

Get your information straight first before reporting false accusations and specifically crafted snippets.

[elawson]

So that means that I can sign a paper stating I'm a billionaire.