Russian President Vladimir Putin has reduced chances of peace with the annexations. His nuclear threats and gamble with latest mobilisation have plunged the war into dangerous and uncharted territories.
The "performance" is aimed at Russian citizens in order to reduce the dissatisfaction with the war among the local population, according to Ukrainian intelligence.
Vladimir Putin, who announced the annexation of Ukrainian territories, hailed millions of citizens for ‘heroically’ defending their ‘choice’ to stay with Russia after annexing four Ukrainian territories
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday said Russia’s planned annexation of four regions of Ukraine won’t be “what the Kremlin hopes for.” Russia plans to annex Ukraine’s Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions on Friday, a major escalation in the seven-month war, after residents supposedly signed off on plans in Moscow-orchestrated referendums condemned by the…