Any attack on annexed Ukrainian territories will be an attack on Russia, Kremlin says

The Irish Times ^ | 9/30/22 | The Irish Times

[JonPreston]

The Kremlin said on Friday that attacks against any part of the swathe of Ukraine that president Vladimir Putin was about to annex would be considered aggression against Russia itself, adding that Russia would fight to take the whole of the Donbas region.

Russian resident Vladimir Putin is due to proclaim the annexation of more than 15 per cent of Ukraine on Friday, escalating his seven-month war and taking it into an unpredictable new phase.

[JonPreston]

[Timber Rattler]

[BobL]

Russia already knows that NATO (the Neocons) will attack them through Ukraine, as they’ve been doing - the only question now is how they now respond. I suspect they’ll step things up a bit.

[z3n]

I say give it to them. But move NATO into the remainder of Ukraine immediately! Start building up that new border. Walls, defenses and missile systems, standing NATO forces.

If Russia didn’t want “encroachment” or NATA in Ukraine, all they had to do was back out to the 2021 borders.

[Dr. Franklin]

So Russia is now attacking itself. How strange!

[jacknhoo]

Excerpt:
“Luhansk and Donetsk, with a combined population of about six million before the invasion, are collectively known as the Donbas, a mostly Russian-speaking centre of coal mining and heavy industry until their economies were wrecked by the fighting from 2014 onwards.

The conflict in eastern Ukraine began in 2014 after a pro-Russian president was toppled in Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution and Russia annexed Crimea. – Reuters”

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For those who are willfully ignorant and simply ignorant on how the US State Department/CIA/Soros/John Kerry/Clintons/Romney/Biden/Obama/and so many other anti-Americans, forced the hand of Russia, watch this for an introductory lesson:

https://rumble.com/vwxxi8-ukraine-on-fire.html

[FreshPrince]

So there is no doubt that this invasion from Russia had nothing to do with:

Soros
Biolabs
De-Nazification
WEF
Presidents dancing in high heels
blah
blah
blah

It was a pure land grab.

[ScottinVA]

Well, we’ll see how much the little misshapen mongol in the Kremlin can back that up… the Ukes are having a hearty laugh at Putin right now. Meanwhile, the continue to encircle Lyman and are pressing into Donetsk.

[BeauBo]

[BeauBo]

I suspect they’ll step things up a bit.

[Krosan]

>It was a pure land grab.

Also “demographic adjustment”.

Russia is stealing Ukrainian children in massive numbers and subjecting them to intense brainwashing.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Russia wasn't even making a claim at all for Kherson or Zaporizhzhia prior to the invasion. Annexation of those two oblasts proves this was just a raw territorial grab by Russia right from the start.

Time for NATO members to really crank up production of war materials to continue arming Ukraine. Let's see for how long the Russia people are willing to send their sons into a meat grinder for Putin's ego.

Murderous thug is destroying the future of two countries, and nearly 200 million people.

[JonPreston]

All free people have a right to self-determination

[Alberta's Child]

Interestingly, Russia seems to following the same approach the U.S. employed in making claims all over the Pacific Ocean in the 20th century for military purposes. Many Americans probably don't even know that Hawaii wasn't a U.S. state when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

I'm also curious to see how the situation in Ukraine's OTHER border regions play out over time -- with Poland, Romania, Hungary, etc.

[Renfrew]

The original plan was to recreate the USSR. Collapse the Ukrainian government and have all of Ukraine and Belarus in some form of union with Russia under Putin.

Once that failed Putin never figured out what to do. Plan now seems to be keep what they occupied and accept losing the rest of Ukraine to NATO, but for that to work he needs an army that can hold the territory.

[AppyPappy]

Russia invaded Ukraine, not the other way around

[bert]

The formerly Russian town of Lyman was liberated and the defending Russians fled in disarray as they were trapped in a Ukranian double envelopment.

[dfwgator]

I think now Ukraine in NATO is a foregone conclusion, there has to be some kind of response to this action by Russia.

[JonPreston]

The formerly Russian town of Lyman was liberated

When? Link please.