His plan seems to be in progress Vladimir Putin for attaching new ones Ukrainian territories.
Pro-Russian authorities in the Kherson region intend to raise the issue of its accession to the Russian Federation “in the near future” in order to become a “full-fledged territorial entity of Russia,” Kirill Stremusov, deputy head of the Area administration.
“The Kherson region intends to join the Russian Federation in the near future, being a full component of it,” said the pro-Russian separatist official.
On February 21, The Russian president announced the decision to recognize the “sovereignty” of the “People’s Republics” of Donetsk and Lugansk. The “conditions of friendship, cooperation and mutual aid” were signed with their leaders. On February 22, the State Duma and the Federal Council ratified both documents, and Putin signed the corresponding laws on the same day.
On February 24, he declared a “special military operation” in Ukraine, claiming that it was responding to a request from the leaders of the Donbass “democracies” to “protect people who have suffered from abuse and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.”
The Russian president claimed that Moscow had no plans to occupy Ukrainian territory, noting that the operation was aimed at “de-Naziizing and demilitarizing Ukraine.”
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