Pro-Russian Leader of Ukraine’s Kherson Region Says He Will Ask Putin for Russian Annexation

The authorities installed by Moscow in the Ukrainian region of Kherson announced on Wednesday that they will ask the president Vladimir Putin annex that territory to Russia.

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“There will be a request (addressed to the Russian president) to make the region of Kherson be a full subject of the Russian Federation,” Kirill Stremusov, deputy head of the civic-military administration of the region conquered by Moscow during the offensive launched in February against Ukraine, told Russian agencies.

President Putin he ordered the assault against the neighboring country which he accuses of oppressing and massacring the Russophones. Putin had assured that he did not want to occupy Ukrainian territories.

The region of Khersonlocated just north of the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014, it is vital for the water supply of that territory.

Its conquest, the only real military success for Moscow since the start of its campaign, also allows it to build a land bridge linking Crimea, the pro-Russian separatist region of Donetsk and Russian territory.

His conquest was also to allow Moscow to launch an assault on the great port of Odessa, in southeastern Ukraine, so far without success, so north towards the cities of Zaporizhia and Dnipro.

Source: Elcomercio

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