“What are their plans? They go to the administrative border of the Lugansk region or Donetsk region, immediately hold a pseudo-referendum, decide on the entry of these territories into the Russian Federation, and then, when Ukraine will carry out a counteroffensive and liberate the territories, Putin will simply announce that Ukraine went to war against Russia, therefore, full mobilization is announced,” Gaidai predicted.
In his opinion, Russia did not take this step in 2014 because Ukraine did not have enough military power to retake its territories, but now the situation is different.
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