The Russian-installed administration in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Oblast is planning to hold a referendum on joining the Russian Federation sometime this year, Russia’s Tass news agency reported.
Russia currently controls about two-thirds of Zaporizhzhia, which is located in the southeast between the Donestk Oblast and the Kherson Oblast. “The people will determine the future of the Zaporizhzhia region. The referendum is scheduled for this year,” said Vladimir Rogov, a pro-Russia official in Zaporizhzhia.
Russia controls most of the Kherson to the west of Zaporizhzhia, and pro-Moscow officials there have also said they’re looking at ways to join Russia. In response, officials in Moscow have said it is up to the people living in the regions.
Russia’s control of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia links Crimea with the Donbas region and secures a water supply for the peninsula, which has been under a years-long Ukrainian blockade.
The talk of referendums and possible annexation by Russia is a sign that the longer the war goes on, the more territory Ukraine may lose. In the early days of the invasion, Russia’s demands were for Ukraine to drop its claim to Crimea and recognize the Donbas region.
Amid growing calls for Ukraine to cede Crimea and the Donbas to achieve a peace deal, Ukrainian officials have strongly rejected the idea and maintain that they want to drive Russia out of all territories, including Crimea.
Russia is in win mode.
It’s logical. More than half of the ukraine always wanted better relations with Russia but ended up with the US imposed Nazi minority rule anyway.
All liberated areas are going to join Russia as soon as its secure doing so.
Certainly. And they should.
I’m sure they are thrilled that Thomas Eagleton is emigrating to Russia.
ROFL
How can that ever be legitimate when 70% of the population has been forced to flee for their lives? What a joke!
And they aren’t coming back. As for those remaining, reports yesterday there are long lines for Russian passports.
As a dying nation Russia is desperate to get new citizens 🙂
Hard to call Russia dying, when Ukraine citizens are fleeing Ukraine for their lives and Russia is pounding what they left behind onto dust. Not many Russians are relocating to Ukraine, but many Ukrainians will make an easy move to Russia, particularly those who can speak and understand the Russian language. Is everything this bozo writes a lie, exageration, or factually flawed?
Make no mistake comrade, Russia is slowly dying as a state.
Poor demographics with an increasingly older population and poor healthcare are the main culprits. Of course, wars don’t help either.
Make no mistake U S of A is dying much faster.Social unrest, widening wealth gaps crimes and burdened with 39 plus trillion debt, inflation, gun crimes.More than every thing else Americans lost control of America is hijacked by Israel with the machination of fifth columnists in every sphere of administration. Americans forfeited the freedom they have been enjoying for long
Unfortunately comrade, the Russian federation will not last.
Most likely its eastern parts will go to China whereas the western areas probably will approach Europe.
Unfortunately for you comrade US will disintegrate under its own weight , contradictions and burdens the master class, you Zionists, had major roll in creating.We are watching it every day.We are also aware that after extracting the last drop of blood from your prey you are looking to ditch it and looking for new suckers, We have proof,not evidence, that you are planing it for some time.Poor creatures, the so called American may not be aware of your perfidy. Even if they are aware they will not react. Because slaves will not do
The Russian federation is about to implode.
A new leadership will emerge that will try to salvage the relations with the west.
Parts of Siberia will be sold off to China and other regions will take the opportunity and claim independence from Moscow.
It’s inevitable now, things are already in motion….
Plot for a political novel. Have wet dream. No harm. But some one else will write, not fiction, about the implosion of USA.
You can speculate about the US, the Russian federation is already crumbling.
That is a trick you have to ask Israel
I don’t live in the Middle East.
Does not matter. you ask your senator, congress man or even president, all lap dogs Israel.You will get the right explanation.
We don’t have senators in my country, not everyone is an American, comrade.
So the Ukraine coupe regime were depriving their own people of live giving water? What sort of regime is that? No wonder people vote for Russia.
By refusing to deal on Crimea and the Separatist enclaves in Donbas before the war, Ukraine now faces losing all the Donbas, plus Kherson and Zaporizhzia. And, it will only get worse, as more blood is spilled and the Russians dig in and consolidate their defenses in the occupied territories. After 8 years of failed attempts at conquest, Ukraine should have accepted that occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, and Crimea were gone forever, and made the best deal they could. Now, they are going to lose far more, and ruin their country at the same time.
Oh ZelBoy, don’t you wish you had abided by the Minsk agreements?
By the time Putin gets done with you, you’ll have lost more territory than you ever thought imaginable.
And you richly deserve it.
The problem is that Russia was never going to stop at luhansk, donetsk, and Crimea. Russia wants all of Ukraine. So what would you do if you were Ukranian? I think i know your answer. You would surrender, wouldn’t you? Cause you love your master, Putin.
No; I am a realist, not some zelensky fan-boy. Russia was pretty clear in their pre war demands; I see no reason to doubt them. But now? They will keep everything they have taken; and Ukraine will never have the power to take it back. They can keep fighting as long as we keep giving them weapons, but it will just increase the death toll and the damage to their infrastructure. Ukraine’s regular army, which was never very good in conducting offensive operations to start with, has been largely destroyed; no horde of “volunteers”, armed with mismatched junk cast off by NATO countries clearing out their warehouses, will have the ability to launch offensive operations against prepared Russian defenses backed by superior firepower and air superiority.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R__ik2yg5d4
India’s take on Mad Vlad’s health.
Chinese consistently place the blame on US and NATO for Ukrainian tragedy.
As the events evolve, I can see why this understanding has taken hold around globe. Ukraine has bern borderlands to for centuries. Not a country, but regions with cultural. linguistic and religious differences, and different historical awareness.
Rulers changed throughout history but coninuity of cultures testify to the survival in the Borderlands.
Soviet Union brought a new concept of governance and socialist republics were crrated based on political expedience. Coming out of Soviet Union created a state with no experience in statehood, and was contested from the very moment Soviet Union started to dissolve.
West started the fight for Ukraine — before Ukraine had a chance to discover itself. And it is this continuous push towards inserting its influence in Kiev that brought Orange Revolution, a series of divisive leaders, and finally an honest to goodness democratically elected president.
West felt that Ukraine was slipping away, and the well organized Maidan chaos resulted in violence — and a clarity in the minds of Rusdian speakers that Kiev was ruled by elite that aimed for cultural revolutikn. With explicitey expressed goal of eradicating Russianess from Ukraine, its thousand year history — the revolt broke throughout the country. Only Crimea and the portions of Donbas suceeded to repel various Maidan
empowered militias. Everywhere else — protests were brutally put down. Not just Odessa, Dnyepro, Mariupol, Kharkov.
Minsk agreement was the last chance for the pieced together land to become a unified society.
Minsk Agreement was the cornerstone of Zelenski campaign, He got 73% of the vote.
The rest is known. Zelenski is not his own man. West did not want Minsk Agreement, as recognizing rights of Donbas meant giving voice to Russian entity within Ukraine, tbus — no easy path to NATO integration.
Decision was simple — Russian population had toblose their voice in Ukraine. Either by staying excluded in Donbas, or making it impossible to have a voice inside Ukraine — literally or politically.
West Ukrainian obsession with Russophobia ever since Soviet win over Hitler was the key to Western attempt at reconstructing Ukraine. Its Russian history, culture and language erased. And such new Ukraine was to be the key to weakening and destroying Russia.
Russia did not help US “unite” Europe . Russia and China both needed to flush in the open European true character. Booth Russia and China endeavored to open Eurasian cintinent to trade snd benefits of abundant energy and food
.
However, both expected benefits while being unable to be indelendent decidion makers.
This is why Ukraine cannot go back to status quo ante, Ukraine will not exist. It will be part of Russia and I hope an indelendent Galicia to avoid being used by various powers that set their eyes on Russia.
What about Amber Heard??
You forgot about her in this alcohol induced rant!
I must commend Putin on this one. He has outperformed NAZIS in an improved way. He sentences prisoners of war to death through state controlled court trials. That’s pretty fair in my opinion.
The Nazis have evolved, Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels would all be proud of what the Kremlin is doing!