naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 7 months agoThe war in Ukraine and our obligation to seek peacewww.meer.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareRubberDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-27 months ago5 contested regions? Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporhizhia, Kherson, Crimea, Odessa. And no #2 Kharkiv and #3 Odessa are both on Putin’s “wishlist”. Russian annexation of ukranian oblasts. https://tass.com/politics/1721001 The end goal is to link up the coast to Transnistria and make what is left of Ukraine landlocked.
minus-squarekookaburra@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months ago Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporhizhia, Kherson, Crimea Only abovementioned 5 regions had referendums and therefore fall into “Russia considers part of Russia” category as they are really treated as Russian regions by Russian law. Any other regions of Ukraine are not, at least currently.
5 contested regions? Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporhizhia, Kherson, Crimea, Odessa.
And no #2 Kharkiv and #3 Odessa are both on Putin’s “wishlist”.
The end goal is to link up the coast to Transnistria and make what is left of Ukraine landlocked.
Only abovementioned 5 regions had referendums and therefore fall into “Russia considers part of Russia” category as they are really treated as Russian regions by Russian law. Any other regions of Ukraine are not, at least currently.