The measures that Russia is taking in the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk regions testify to the systematic preparation for the so-called referendums, intelligence assures.
Russia has not achieved its main goal – to occupy Ukraine and is preparing to annex the already occupied territories.
About it informed representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense Vadim Skibitsky.
“The strategic goal of Russia regarding the complete occupation of our territory has not been achieved. Secondly, we clearly see and have information that the legislative body of the Russian Federation, the government, and other structures are now actively working on all issues related to a possible “integration of the temporarily occupied territories in the Russian Federation – politically, economically and territorially. How this will happen, we will see closer to autumn. September 11 is a single voting day,” Skibitsky said.
The representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate noted that intelligence records a revival of activities aimed at the annexation of the occupied territories in the Donetsk, Kherson, Lugansk regions. Skibitsky called them systematic preparations for the so-called referendums.
According to intelligence data, legislative initiatives are being prepared in Russia, which should simplify the procedure for obtaining citizenship by integrating or joining the territory to the Russian Federation and the like. Regarding general mobilization in the Russian Federation, Skibitsky noted that it can be declared when war is declared.
“Putin does not admit that he did not achieve his main goal of occupation in a short time, he continues the so-called “special military operation” and does not want to admit that this is a full-scale war. And not only in the territory of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, as he said, and this is a full-scale war against the Ukrainian state, against the Ukrainian people,” he summed up.
