“The Russians have already won. Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia will never, ever go back to being part of Ukraine.”
Lyman (in Donetsk) was liberated by Ukraine a few hours ago. Your assertion has already been proven wrong.
Too right. A bit of kabuki theater over the 40,000 (mostly blank) ballot sheets that were used to annexe Zaporizhzhia (population 1.66 million) doesn’t change anything.
Russia lost. The whole world got to see the most ridiculous parade of delusion - four guys signing a bit of paper that is completely meaningless, two of them have been on the Kremlin payroll for years and the other two are opportunists who’ll spend the rest of their lives fearing a fragging from the people who REALLY control their regions.