On September 23, local time, the four regions of Ukrainian , Donetsk , Luhansk , Zaboroze and Khelsson , will be held in the four regions and will end on September 27. In response, the United States and Europe accused the referendum led by Russia of trampling on Ukraine's sovereignty and international law. But Russia believes that they are just copying the "Kosovo model" advocated by the West, and the Ukrainian people also have the right to decide their future.
Ukrainian media analyzed that Russia tried to copy the "Crimean model" through a "referendum" and would recruit local people on the spot to solve the problem of insufficient Russian troops. At the same time, Russia can also argue that the counterattack of Ukrainian troops on the local area is an attack on Russia's mainland. To this end, Zelensky called on people living in the four regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporoze and Khlsson controlled by the Russian army to "try all means" to escape Russia's mobilization orders and strive to escape to the Ukrainian force-controlled area. Zelensky also said that if he could not escape and was eventually forced to join the Russian army, they could also assist the Ukrainian army in the counterattack from within the enemy.
In fact, Ukraine has been buried in the shattered mountains and rivers. In 2014, after the Yanukovych government, which tried to balance between Russia and the West, was violently overthrown, Ukraine plunged head-on into the arms of the West. In response to this, Putin adopted a series of seemingly tough but actually restrained policies. Back then, Putin accepted the majority-pro-Russian population of Crimean Peninsula and joined Russia in a referendum. Putin also morally supported the pro-Russian militia in eastern Ukraine. It can be said that Putin's purpose of accepting Crimea into Russia was to warn Ukraine and the West, warning that NATO's eastward expansion would be stopped in moderation. As a result, the West pressed step by step and even deployed offensive weapons to Ukraine, which undoubtedly hurt Putin's sensitive nerves.
Eight years ago, Donetsk and Lugansk declared "independence", but Putin never gave formal diplomatic recognition. Even though Ukraine continued to attack pro-Russian militia in eastern Ukraine, the Russian army did not directly participate in the war. Until February this year, the Ukrainian army not only attacked the Ukrainian region, but also threatened to regain Crimea . Putin could no longer bear it. He not only directly recognized Donetsk and Lugansk's "independence" status, but also announced "special military action" against Ukraine. After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the United States led Western countries to portray President Zelensky as a hero of "anti-aggression" in international public opinion, and promoted it greatly, and launched rounds of sanctions against Russia, strongly supported Ukraine in terms of technology, intelligence, weapons and equipment, and controlled the process of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
American scholars once pointed out incisively that if the United States wants to stop this conflict, it only needs to move its mouth and say that NATO does not accept Ukraine's joining, and everything is OK, but the United States does not want to do so. As early as the beginning of the conflict, many countries, including China, actively coordinated with it, hoping that Russia and Ukraine would stop the conflict. But not only did not try to mediate the conflict, the United States continued to intensify its aid to Ukraine and increase sanctions against Russia. Originally, Russia and Ukraine had five rounds of negotiations, and the two sides were even close to reaching an agreement to resolve the problem through political means, but the United States jumped out and disrupted the situation, and the Zelensky administration immediately overturned the results of the negotiations. As Ukraine refused to resolve the problem through political means and continued to launch attacks with Western military aid, both Russia and Ukraine suffered huge losses of personnel and equipment.
For Putin, accepting Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporoze and Khlsson's "referendum to Russia" is to make up for the damage to war, and on the other hand, it is to try to establish a "strategic buffer zone" with NATO countries. However, Putin was not the first to "take back" the areas where the Russian Empire once ruled by voting.In July 1940, Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , Lithuania held a referendum on the same day to apply to join the Soviet Union. In August of the same year, the Soviet Union decided to absorb the three countries to become the franchise republic until The Soviet Union collapsed . In 1999, NATO bypassed UN Security Council and blatantly bombed Yugoslavia . At the same time, Western countries also under the banner of "human rights are greater than sovereignty" to encourage Kosovo to separate from the yugoslavia through a "referendum", and Serbia , which inherited the legacy of the yugoslavia , always refused to recognize Kosovo's "independence". Vucic President has been asking, what is the difference between the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Serbia and Ukraine? But to this day, NATO has not given a reasonable statement.
However, in response to Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhe and Khlsson's "referendum" in Russia, US President Biden threatened to retaliate and made Russia pay a heavy price. For Putin, he had no turning back and was ready to showdown with the West. Previously, Putin issued a war mobilization order, summoning 300,000 reserve personnel to join the active service, and hinting that if the Ukrainian army and neo-Nazi attacked the above four areas after "entering Russia", the possibility of using nuclear power is not ruled out. Public opinion generally believes that Russia will never give up the fruits of victory easily, and this local conflict is developing in the direction of a "protracted war".
