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What Putin announced on 30 September 2022
Summary
A look back at the Russian president's declaration on annexing four occupied regions, and his remarks on the Nord Stream leaks a day earlier.
What did Russia's president say on 30 September 2022? In a speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia had annexed four regions occupied during the conflict.
The announcement turned territory held by Russian forces into a formal claim of Russian sovereignty, as Moscow presented it. That claim covered the four regions named in his speech, which were occupied in the course of the fighting.
The declaration came one day after Putin commented on the Nord Stream gas leaks. On 29 September 2022, he called them an unprecedented act of international terrorism. That was how he described the sabotage of the pipelines.
Taken together, the two days show the Russian leadership setting out its position on territory and on energy infrastructure in quick succession. The speech of 30 September 2022 was the more consequential of the two, since it concerned the status of occupied land.
