Vladimir Putin officially signed the documents for the annexation of the territories in Ukraine where illegal referendums were organized just a week ago, so that for the Russians, 15% of the territory of Ukraine became their own territory, even if in reality things are not quite that simple.
Vladimir Putin can now claim that any kind of actions that are taken against this territory, or on this territory, represent a threat to the territorial integrity of the country he leads, even if those territories do not belong to him, but which they don't even control them completely, the Ukrainians daily liberating large areas from those regions.
"Putin signs "documents" regarding the official annexation of 15% of the territory of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin signed four federal laws to try to formalize the illegal annexation of Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.
The borders of the "new subjects" will be determined by the borders that "existed on the day of their acceptance into the Russian Federation," according to the Russian-controlled news agency TASS."
The borders of "the new subjects" will be determined by the borders that "existed on the day of their acceptance into the Russian Federation," according to Russian-controlled news agency TASS.
- The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) October 5, 2022
