“Vlad will never give up the ethnic Russian provinces he has liberated.”
Ummmm looks like Vlad has done just that in the Kharkiv oblast....
Putin doesn’t want that area...he just wants to keep the Ukrainian Army busy up there.
Kharkiv
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Kharkiv has a Ukie majority, 73 percent are Ukies , less than 25 percent are ethnic Russians. They also passed the Ukrainian only language law. Vlad interests are liberating the ethnic Russian cities.