Western analysts suggest the Kremlin is having some difficulties in getting coherent messaging out after a day of contradictory and unclear statements from Russian officials.
Russia’s much-vaunted “Day of Unification” holiday on Saturday was marked by a grand speech from President Putin but a touch of confusion and mixed messages from other Kremlin officials.
The day was supposed to celebrate the first anniversary of the signing of the so-called “agreements on the inclusion of new territories into the Russian Federation,” the illegal annexation of Ukrainian lands occupied by Moscow’s forces.
But in marking the day, it became apparent the Kremlin had not specified exactly which lands these were.
Putin addressed the nation on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the annexations, calling them a historic choice by the people living there to reunite with the “Fatherland.”
According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Sevastopol occupation governor Mikhail Razvozhaev got fully behind the message in a post on Telegram which declared the entirety of Crimea and Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson oblasts as Russian territory.
This was in marked contrast to a post from the Kherson Oblast occupation administration, which showed a map with Russian territory extending only to roughly areas corresponding to the present front lines.
Further adding to the confusion, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev, said the war in Ukraine will continue until “the original Russian territories are liberated,” though he failed to state what these actually were.
In a bombastic speech, he added: “The special military operation will continue until the complete destruction of the Nazi regime in Kyiv.
“Victory will be ours. And there will be more new regions within Russia.”
Again, he did not specify what these “new regions” would be.
The ISW concluded: “Medvedev’s unclear statement and occupation officials’ disparate maps indicate that the Kremlin has yet to clarify what territories it claims to have annexed or intends to annex.”
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Of course the orcs are being vague in announcing which territories they have annexed. It leaves room for plausible deniability when they are removed from these territories.
Bunch of fucking half-witted morons.
On the contrary, the intention is crystal clear. The putinaZis and their piss-stained nazi supporters speak as one.
US and UK intel knew from as far back as Sept 2021 what the intention was and it has not and will not change.
It is the total subjugation of Ukraine. Invader scum were ordered to do whatever want to Ukrainian civilians and/or captured soldiers. In fact they were and are rewarded for it. The greater the evil, the bigger the reward.
The atrocities are as bad as nazi Germany, but potentially even larger in scale.
In terms of such colossal evil, the world has never seen anything like it.
Mafia land will be very lucky to emerge from this war as it is now composed of, much less in possession of any stolen territories.