What kind of “victory” can Putin sell to the Russians on May 9/Getty Images
Nothing new militarily will happen on May 9th. Everyone sees that Russia lost time and changed tactics. Now they have several development scenarios, and the main thing for them now is the Donbass and the strengthening of processes in the south and in Odessa. Read more in the exclusive blog on the Channel 24 website.
But they did not succeed in a blitzkrieg, while the defense lines were tightened significantly in the south and east. See how Severodonetsk – Rubizhne – Lisichansk, Odessa and Nikolaev are holding on – even bigger cities.
“Renewal” of the Union State
At present, the Kremlin is trying to renew the composition of the Union State created with Belarus. Recently, a meeting was held in Donetsk between Secretary of the State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus Dmitry Mezentsev, Deputy Presidential Administration of Russia Sergei Kiriyenko, Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Sergei Kravtsov, Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia party Andrei Turchak, with the participation of terrorists Denis Pushilin and Leo.
The meeting discussed the issues of joining the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions into the Union State.The New USSR
According to the information received from the sources of the Eastern Human Rights Group, it became known that Russian President Vladimir Putin may announce on May 9 on the creation of a new Union State with the entry of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and the occupied territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions into its composition.
Putin came up with a new version of the USSR/Photo by Getty Images
The Kremlin plans to sell this event as a possible victory in the post-Soviet space and the creation of a de facto new USSR. That is why Russian propaganda is now promoting a “new symbol” – a grandmother with a Soviet flag. The creation of the Union State can be used by Putin as a global victory and shifts.
