According to the Ukrainian News Agency, the situation in the Khlsong region occupied by Russia on the 7th changed suddenly. Vice Chairman of the Military and Civilian Government Stremusov announced that they were about to hold a referendum to join Russia to decide whether to join Russia. The speed of this process is far faster than the Ukrainian government's expectations. Just at the end of last month, Stremusov also said in an interview with Reuters that they "don't plan to vote for referendum" and should speed up the restoration of order in the Khlsong region. British media believe that the region's status quo will last for at least a long time, but the referendum preparations began in just one week. Before that, Khlsong had gradually completed market, currency and political system reforms, and the success rate of referendum to Ukraine was very high.
As of now, there are Lugansk in Ukraine and Khlsson have stated that a referendum will be held. Overseas South Ossetia areas have also announced that a referendum will be held in Russia. Foreign media speculate that no matter whether the conflict between Russia and Ukraine can be completely recovered until the end, a referendum may be held in the occupied areas. In the areas controlled by the Russian army, only some areas of Zaporoze Prefecture and Kharkov Prefecture have not made any clear statements; Ukraine currently has another concern: if the war drags on longer and the cost of Russian casualties increases, other occupied territories may also be "planned independence" or incorporated into Russia, because Russian people refuse to accept the outcome of withdrawing troops from the land.
8, multiple media reported that Vladimir Rogov, the administrative representative of the military and civilian government of the Zaporoze Region, publicly announced that the referendum on the participation of the Zaporoze region to the Russian Federation will be held this year. Preparations have begun and it is expected to take several months. This is bound to be the "worst news" for Ukraine, because this move not only means that they are likely to lose another piece of land, but the previous concerns are becoming a reality: the area currently occupied by the Russian army has no intention of returning it to the Zelensky government, and these administrative regions, regardless of size, will gradually move towards the end of "exiting the Ukrainian".
Some analysts believe that Zaporoze, Khlsson, Lugansk, and South Ossetia are expected to complete referendum operations before the end of the year, and the possibility of incorporation into Russia is extremely high. Many administrative regions in Ukraine are mixed areas of Russia and Ukrainian ethnic groups. The years of rule during the Soviet Union gave the Russian Federation strong grassroots control over these areas. Citizens generally have two languages: , Ukrainian and Russian, without long-term assimilation. Now if Ukraine avoids giving them a referendum, there is only one way to put it into force, but based on Ukrainian counterattack in the Khlsun region in the past month, the results have been very limited.
It is worth mentioning that in the early stages of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, opposition parties of the Zelensky regime, such as MP Kiwa, warned that if NATO does not participate in the operation, the possibility of victory is extremely small, Ukraine should seize the time to negotiate with the Putin authorities to avoid angering Russia and paying a greater territorial and economic cost; at that time, Moscow promised that if they could negotiate to resolve the Donbass issue, they would withdraw their troops soon and would not occupy Ukrainian land, but Zelensky chose to "continue to fight." Some people also commented on this that Zelensky, who became a "chess piece", had no opinion. They would only listen to NATO's demands. Unfortunately, NATO countries never consider the population, economic and territorial losses that Ukraine has paid, and they just want to consume with the Russian army.
