The Kremlin's rhetoric can be anything. Talk about the annexation of territories is needed in order to continue to scare the West and Ukraine, so the Russians again started talking about a “referendum”.
A Russian opposition journalist told this Channel 24 Igor Yakovenko. He also noted that it is difficult to call it a “referendum”, because how to carry out the “expression of will” in the conditions of hostilities.
“Moreover, Zaporozhye, a city under the control of Ukraine, taking place in the Kherson region, is also understandable,” – says Yakovenko.
According to this logic, one can easily gather in New York, for example, aggressive Russians and vote about something. These pseudo-referendums will have approximately the same level of legitimacy,” he is convinced.
Such haste of the Gauleiters can also be explained, the journalist adds, “Ukraine is advancing and returning the lands, but they cannot flee to the Russians, and therefore they are afraid for their lives.
The purpose of the “referendums” is to create conditions for mobilization
Analysts of the Institute for the Study of War explained that holding “referendums” in the territories of the occupied Donetsk and Lugansk regions is not required for the annexation of lands . Rather, yes, for annexation, but not for the purpose of possession.
In fact, analysts are convinced that this will allow the enemy to send residents of the temporary occupied territories to the front. Note that Russia has done this before, but hidden. Instead, the pseudo-referendum will untie the hands of the aggressor country.
