{"id":15099,"date":"2022-10-05T16:27:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T08:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=15099"},"modified":"2022-10-05T16:27:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T08:27:12","slug":"putin-ratifies-agreements-on-annexing-4-ukrainian-regions-into-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=15099","title":{"rendered":"Putin ratifies agreements on annexing 4 Ukrainian regions into Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ANKARA, Oct 5 <\/strong>&#8212; Russia&#8217;s President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday approved the ratification of the agreement on the &#8220;admission&#8221; of Ukraine&#8217;s Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions into the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also signed a federal constitutional law on the inclusion of four regions within Russian territory, Anadolu Agency reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, the Russian parliament ratified agreements on annexing the Ukrainian regions, the report added.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-19.03.33.png\" alt=\"regions\" class=\"wp-image-10489\" width=\"600\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-19.03.33.png 723w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-19.03.33-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-19.03.33-162x100.png 162w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-19.03.33-350x216.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin signed agreements last Friday with separatist authorities of the breakaway Ukrainian regions on joining Russia, following &#8220;referendums&#8221; held on Sept&nbsp;23-27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vote came more than seven months into Russia&#8217;s war on Ukraine that began on Feb&nbsp;24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The &#8220;referendums&#8221; have been condemned by the international community, with European nations and the US calling them a &#8220;sham&#8221; and underlining that they would not be recognized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Putin&#8217;s decision to annex four regions is invalid and has no legal consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/\">NMT<\/a> as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/world\/news.php?id=2126393\">Bernama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, Oct 5 &#8212; Russia&#8217;s President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday approved the ratification of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-19.03.33.png",723,446,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-19.03.33-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-19.03.33-300x185.png",300,185,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-19.03.33.png",640,395,false],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-19.03.33.png",640,395,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-19.03.33.png",723,446,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-19.03.33.png",723,446,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-19.03.33.png",723,446,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-19.03.33.png",723,446,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-29-at-19.03.33.png",720,444,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=59\" rel=\"category\">World<\/a>","tag_info":"World","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15100,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15099\/revisions\/15100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}