Annexation of four administrative regions of Ukraine: they “will be part of the Russian Federation, it is irreversible”, warns a specialist

The Ukrainian territories of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporijjia, recognized as independent by Russia after referendums will be “protected, including protection by Russian nuclear weapons“, warns Friday, September 30 on franceinfo Tatiana Kastouéva-Jean, director of the Russia-New Independent States Center at IFRI (the French Institute of International Relations). Russian President Vladimir Putin is to preside over a signing ceremony this Friday. to Russia of the four territories.

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The Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Lugansk “can most likely be appended“, explains this specialist. She believes that the other two territories, the regions of Kherson and Zaporizhia, “of which Russia controls only a part, will be recognized as independent republics“.

Once these regions”will become part of the Russian Federation, it is irreversible“, says Tatiana Kastouéva-Jean. She highlights “the new Russian Constitution adopted in the summer of 2020” who gives “impossible to alienate the territories of the Russian Federation“. For this specialist, Vladimir Putin wants to send a strong message to Ukraine and Westerners: “Stop there, it’s irreversible, I will not go back and I will fight back in a very strong way if you try to take back these territories“, interprets it.