Russia will officially annex four regions of Ukraine after holding “referendums” where Moscow claimed that the inhabitants overwhelmingly voted to merge with the “motherland.”
President Vladimir Putin will attend a ceremony Friday in the Kremlin when four regions of Ukraine — Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia — will officially merge into Russia, spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
He added – the administrators of those regions will sign treaties to join Russia during the ceremony at the Kremlin’s St. George’s Hall.
Initially announced to have “no timeline,” Russia’s ‘special military operations’ in Ukraine have ‘achieved’ many of its goals, despite some significant military setbacks.
Russia perceived the US-led West as wanting to keep the war going by continuing to arm Ukraine, despite Moscow and Kyiv engaging in dialogue in four rounds in the first two months of the conflict. Russia’s ‘Long War’ will now not be fought indefinitely – which anyway was never described as such.
This is also reflected in the scale of military resources Moscow pressed into service – 150,000 troops for a sizeable western front that military analysts say should have required 500,000 personnel. Moreover, only the Western Military District (WMD) was involved, with no reported transfer from other military commands.
The SMO (special military operation) was initially launched, Russia maintained, intending to protect the breakaway LDPR, with whom President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government failed to negotiate under the Minsk Agreements.
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