President Putin announced the merger of four Ukrainian provinces based on the choice of the people here, declaring them to be the country's permanent citizen.

References were held in the People's Republic of Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk (LPR), Zaporizhzhia and Kherson provinces.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke in the Georgievsky hall of Kremlin, Moscow on September 30.

He announced that Russia had 4 more provinces based on the results of referendum.

I am sure that the Russian National Assembly will support the laws to establish 4 new Russian provinces, because this is the wish of millions of people, Putin said, and urged Ukraine to stop working and return to the table.

President Putin also affirmed that Russia never betrayed people in four Ukrainian provinces, claiming they were Russia's permanent citizens.

The announcement of the 4 Ukrainian merger was planned to take place from 15:00 (19h Hanoi time), but Mr. Putin was nearly 20 minutes late.

He accused the West looking to maintain a new colonial system, allowing them to parasitize, in fact plundering the world with the power of the dollar and technology.

They do not want to be free but want to consider us a colony.

He also accused the West for conducting explosions causing 4 leaks on the Nord Stream pipeline that conducted gas from Russia to Europe.

The sanctions were not enough for the West, so they turned to sabotage, by conducting explosions on the Nord Stream pipeline on the Baltic seabed, Putin said, but did not give evidence.

After a short speech, President Putin signed a document with Donetsk, Lugask, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson leaders, approving these four provinces to merge into Russia.

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The Russian government in 4 provinces on September 27 announced that the entire votes were checked in the referendum from September 23 with the lowest result of 87.05% of voters who chose to merge Russia.

The Kremlin said that the voting votes of the referendum has legal significance and also creates security effects, implies that Russia can use nuclear weapons to protect territorial integrity after.

The referendums have faced the opposition of many countries.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on September 29 announced that the plan to merge territory in Ukraine into Russia was an act that never was suitable for all international legal frameworks and going against all values of the international community.

The Russian military regions are controlling in four provinces of referendum to merge into Russia.

US President Joe Biden also affirmed that he would never recognize the results of referendums held in Ukraine, calling it a blatant violation of international principles.

British Prime Minister Liz Truss today criticized Russia in violation of international law when merging four Ukrainian territories, announcing that London would never accept this.

The decision to merge 4 Ukrainian territories despite the UN opposition, Russia could increase the Western and more isolated.

Secretary General Guterres warned that Russia was escalating danger to Ukraine's territorial merger plan, violating the United Nations Charter.