Most of the countries of the world have already announced that they do not recognize the annexation of the occupied Ukrainian territories to Russia, nor the pseudo-referendums that the Kremlin has hastily organized to legitimize the appropriation of Ukrainian national territories. V. Putin also signed orders on the appointment of leaders in the occupied territories of the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.
Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, stressed that “these insignificant decisions of the terrorist state are not even worth the paper on which they are written”. “Collective madness can continue to live in an imaginary world. The best medicine is the armed forces of Ukraine, high-precision weapons, an offensive. Let’s go back to reality and take everything we own,” said A. Yermak. quoted by UNIAN.
The Kremlin has not yet announced to what extent the occupied territories of the Ukrainian regions of Zaporizhia and Kherson have been annexed. As the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Mihailo Podoliak said, the reason for this is the successful counterattacks of the Ukrainian armed forces. After the Russian pseudo-referendums, Ukrainians have already managed to free dozens of settlements in the Kherson, Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk regions from the occupiers, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced in a video message on Tuesday evening. “Our soldiers do not stop. It is only a matter of time before we expel the occupiers from all our lands,” the president stressed. He also said that the Kremlin is doing absolutely everything so that this war can end on the battlefield, not at the negotiating table: “Russia responds to Ukraine’s proposals to end the aggression and liberate our territory with terror,” criminal mobilization and political farce “.
