Posted on 05/11/2022 9:28:06 AM PDT by blam
Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti news agency is reporting for the first time Wednesday that the Russian military occupied southern Ukrainian city of Kherson will soon petition the Kremlin to become part of the Russian Federation.
It was in late April that a pro-Moscow “military-civilian administration” was installed after Kherson fell to the invading forces, complete with a local transition to the Russian ruble. While the news hasn’t been officially confirmed by the Kremlin, it’s significant that the report surfaced through RIA and not Ukrainian or opposition sources, suggesting such referendums or even simple declared annexations in captured regions could be imminent.
Image source: The Guardian
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has in his latest statements invoked Crimea – which came under Russian control due to a Kremlin-backed ‘popular referendum’ in 2014 – as a model for what could happen regarding Kherson’s political future. He stressed it would be “up to local residents” and that the process would be “absolutely clear and legitimate”.
Additionally, according to The Moscow Times, “Occupied Kherson, as well as the Pryazovske region on the Sea of Azov, reportedly began trading with Crimea shortly after Russian forces installed pro-Moscow administrations in the area.”
And Reuters writes of more signs of annexation of the city coming soon as follows: “TASS cited the Russian-controlled administration as saying that pension bodies and a banking system would be created from scratch for the region, and that branches of a Russian bank could be open there before the end of May,” according to its report.
However, some correspondents are saying there won’t be a referendum, or possibly just the appearance of one as a pretext…
Kirill Stremousov, a Russian-aligned figure in Kherson, says a referendum is not needed to make Kherson a people’s republic
Kherson is going the route of direct annexation, which procedurally differs from what Russia has broached for Luhansk or Donetsk
— Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) May 11, 2022
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s defense ministry is vowing that the local population will “resist” such annexation attempts, despite eastern and southern areas of the country having large pockets of pro-Russian and Russian-speaking citizens.
Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Hanna Malya in fresh statements said this week that the fierceness of local Ukrainian resistance has prevented this scenario from taking effect thus far.
“Russians failed to capture the territories instantly as it was in 2014. They do not have such support from the local population. On the contrary, our citizens strongly resist, not only the citizens but also the state of Ukraine,” she described.
Southern Axis Update:
By all indications, #Russian forces will announce the creation of a #Kherson People’s Republic or possibly directly forcibly annex Kherson Oblast in the coming weeks and possibly as soon as May 9.https://t.co/Ya6pu4yieD pic.twitter.com/HLEocJaHaL
— ISW (@TheStudyofWar) May 8, 2022
“But you have to understand that we cannot discuss in public the ways in which the state may act in the temporarily occupied territories. But the fact that the so-called referendums have not yet taken place and cannot take place shows that Ukraine is doing its job effectively,” Malyar emphasized.
They might hold a fake referendum, but I don’t think that is going to stop popular resistance to the occupation.
Put you mask back on and take a shot...
Oh, ye. It sure didn’t stop resistance in Crimea and Donbas.
The truth is that once Ukrainian tyranny is removed nobody immediately wants any part of it back.
Is that what CNN told you?
97% is quite the mandate.
Isn’t this why they separated from Ukraine in 2014?
No, I don’t watch CNN. My opinions are my own.
Expect more of same in the east. The Ukes will end up as a landlocked entity with no military and the Nazis will be vanquished.
For some areas it is just about over.
The regions taken over are starting to set up governmental agencies and embassies. I think it was the BBC who referred to one of them as a “republic” the other day. That was the Donbass area.
The Russians appear to be about to try and gain control over the Odessa region.
IMO that is as big a mistake as was the incursion into the country. But none of that matters now. BTW, every time Zell the bell called for peace talks, pig face Bidet stirred the pot to keep it going.
Zell the bell is about to lose a good portion of his country. He is nothing but a bell being rung back and forth by outside sources and radicals within his country...everybody has got hold of the rope.
He wants 600 billion for rebuilding? Eff him. Get it from Soros and the Bidens and the rest who were involved in the money laundering scam within that hole.
This thing goes on for a good long while yet since the radical groups within that country will continue no matter what. Zell the bell tries to end the fighting by a even a cease fire and those groups will assassinate him ASAP.
The fact remains. Pig Face Bidet and his puppet masters dont give one rats ass about the death of thousands of people. Its all about their lust for POWER and MONEY.
“It sure didn’t stop resistance in Crimea and Donbas.”
Yes, it didn’t actually.
They are going to ask? As if they’re not being told?
Lol.
As usual you are retarded. There will be no referendum in Kherson. Crimea has 125% voter turnout and thus was also illegitimate.
Look closer at voter turnout data. 125% of turnout in Sevestopol but literally no one at the polls per observers. Except for the Tatar protestor who was dragged off on video and later found tortured to death.
Thats your “mandate”.
And in any case I seem to recall it was the Ukraine who contributed to the slander that Trump was urinating on prostitutes in a hotel room.
Activists of the Orange Revolution were funded and trained in tactics of political organisation and nonviolent resistance by Western pollsters and professional consultants who were partly funded by Western government and non-government agencies but received most of their funding from domestic sources. [2] [150] According to The Guardian, the foreign donors included the U.S. State Department and USAID along with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the International Republican Institute, the NGO Freedom House and George Soros's Open Society Institute. [151] The National Endowment for Democracy has supported democracy-building efforts in Ukraine since 1988. [152] Writings on nonviolent struggle by Gene Sharp contributed in forming the strategic basis of the student campaigns. [153]
International Republican Institute joined with Dem groups and Soro's Open Society Institute to help the Orange Revolution in Ukraine.
Now we're in the midst of a color revolution. How ironic is that?
Kherson is the same city where regular citizens keep leaving posters threatening to cut the soldier’s throats and where the installed government there has decided to skip even trying to fake a referendum.
None of it really matters as there’s nothing dumber than annexing a city before the conflict is even over. Ukraine has or will liberate Kharkiv Oblast in the next day or two. The offensive in Izyum has already collapsed. And Ukraine still hasn’t brought out its fresh reserves for its counter offensive yet.
So much for the mighty Russian army
Sounds like Philly
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