‘The plunder of India’: Putin slams West as Russia annexes Ukraine's 4 areas | World News

President Vladimir Putin on Friday cited India's instance whereas accusing the West of upsetting color revolution in any nation for geopolitical positive factors, alleging that the West needed to make Russia a “colony”.

"The West ... started its colonial coverage again within the Center Ages, after which adopted the slave commerce, the genocide of Indian tribes in America, the plunder of India, of Africa, the wars of England and France in opposition to China ... What they did was hooking total nations on medication, intentionally exterminate total ethnic teams," mentioned Putin within the St George's Corridor at a Kremlin ceremony, information company Reuters reported.

At a grand ceremony, Putin formally introduced the annexation of Ukraine's 4 areas - Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia and claimed that “that is the need of thousands and thousands of individuals”.

"For the sake of land and sources, they (the West) hunted folks like animals. That is opposite to the very nature of man, fact, freedom and justice," information company ANI quoted Putin as saying.

Putin mentioned that the West stands prepared to impress revolution in any nation. "Following their objectives, our geopolitical opponents - our opponents as we referred to as them till fairly not too long ago - are ready to place anybody, any nation, within the line of fireplace; to show it into the epicentre of a disaster; to impress a "color revolution" and unleash a massacre," Reuters added.

"We now have seen all this on a couple of event. We additionally know that the West works on situations to fire up new conflicts within the CIS (Commonwealth of Impartial States) space. However we've sufficient of them as it's. You want however have a look at what's occurring now between Russia and Ukraine, what's occurring on the borders of another CIS international locations," he added.

Putin mentioned the residents within the 4 annexed areas will now be Russia's "residents without end".Whereas denying looking for revival of the Soviet Union by the mentioned annexation, Putin accused Western states - which have imposed sweeping sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.

Furthermore, in a robust assertion, Putin additionally added that Russia would now defend its new territory "with all of the means at its disposal."

Putin additionally accused the West of sabotaging Russia-built pure gasoline pipelines beneath the Baltic Sea to Germany, a cost vehemently denied by america and its allies. Nordic nations mentioned the undersea blasts that broken the pipelines this week and have led to large methane leaks concerned a number of hundred kilos of explosives.

The declare by Putin got here forward of an emergency assembly Friday on the UN Safety Council in New York on the assaults on the Nord Stream 1 and a pair of pipelines, and as Norwegian researchers revealed a map projecting that a large plume of methane from the broken pipelines will journey over giant swaths of the Nordic area.

In Washington, US President Joe Biden's administration dismissed Putin’s pipeline claims as outlandish.

(With inputs from businesses)