There are signs that the Kremlin is pondering plans to declare a formal war on Ukraine and mobilise its reserves
OES RUSSIA plan to declare a formal war on Ukraine and mobilise its reserves? “At the moment, no,” insisted Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin’s slippery spokesman, on September 13th, days after Russia’s army was routed in Kharkiv province. “There is no discussion of this.” Yet there are signs that the Kremlin is now pondering such a step. Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, was due to deliver a speech to the nation on the evening of September 20th.
On the same day as this legislative signal, officials from the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics , a pair of Russian puppet regimes in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, said that they planned to hold referendums between September 23rd and 27th to allow the two regions to join Russia. Officials in Kherson and Zaporizhia, another pair of occupied provinces in the south, said they would follow suit.
The model, she noted, was Crimea. The peninsula was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 after a similarly bogus referendum. Russian officials have since issued ominous warnings that a Ukrainian effort to recapture it would represent a serious escalation. “Any attempt to encroach on Crimea is a declaration of war against our country,” fulminated Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s security council and the country’s former president, in the summer.
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