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.
Well, without even looking at what is being claimed, Ukrainians pushing them past their border is an objective fact.
As for the "poorly trained troops," all of Russia's troops are shitty, even the VDV who have all been slaughtered in large numbers, with many professional soldiers outright deserting. They're tik tok soldiers.
As for the "16 brigades still across the border," I've heard this claim but doesn't appear to actually be true. Otherwise they are letting their troops get slaughtered and losing all this ground while they just sit there with their thumb up their ass.
As for 3000 Orc Tubes being decisive: Russkies are so hard up they were delivering WW2 tubes up to the front. Video footage has the Russkies using 1 or 2 tubes instead of firing in mass numbers.
Quite frankly they are running short of everything. They have trash left, and trash to move forward, and with trash they'll die. Thank God!
Do you have jello for brain? The orcs and goblins are farting bean-guzzling species like you. Are you even capable of civic discussion? The pro-Russian sympathies of the Crimean population were well-known before the “occupation”.
As for the “poorly trained troops,” all of Russia’s troops are shitty
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I guess it relative: those forced conscripts are basically men drug odd the street, given a uniform and a weapon and taken to the front. Even ordinary “poorly trained” orc conscripts are better trained.
UA pushing across the Orc border would get an immediate nuclear response, per standing Orc policy.
Bridges: Oh for gosh sake just go look a map
So if it isn’t on video it didn’t or doesn’t happen?
Your lord and savior Zelensky demands 600 billion dollars so pay up, peasant!!
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Why are you calling christians and white people “orcs”? Why do you hate christians and white people?
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