Four regions of Ukraine are joining Russia today

Ukraine's Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, Donetsk and Luhansk regions will officially join the Russian Federation on Friday. At a time when these four regions are going to be included in Russia, while Ukraine has announced that it will continue to fight to save these areas. At the same time, the Western world criticized this move and announced more sanctions on Russia.

A ceremony has been organized at the Kremlin Hall in Moscow, Russia, to declare these four regions part of them. This program will start at 3 pm. Putin will make a speech at the event, as well as sign documents. Apart from this, a concert has also been organized in Red Square, a little away from the Kremlin Wall.

In this regard, Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, after the referendum, these four regions are being joined with the Russian Federation to respond to the call of the rulers. After the signing of the relevant document, Putin will deliver an important speech.

However, it is not certain whether Putin will go to the concert organized in Red Square. But in 2014, after taking control of Crimea, a similar event was held. At that time, however, he went to Red Square.

Today, while Moscow is in a festive mood, Kiev, Ukraine will be under pressure. The country's President Volodymyr Zelensky has called a meeting on what kind of steps will be taken after this occupation of Russia. Top officials of the country's security department and politicians will attend the meeting.

Before this meeting, Zelensky said on Thursday that Russia's so-called referendum has no value. It will not change the reality. Territorial integrity of Ukraine will be restored. Russian actions will be met with a strong response.

 

The United States and the European Union have already announced they will impose more sanctions on Russia. However, there is disagreement about the sanctions that will be imposed by the EU. Hungary has said it will not support the embargo if the fuel is covered.

Serbia, known as Russia's ally, Kazakhstan also says that they will not recognize this move by Russia. And the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who brought Ukraine and Russia to the negotiating table, also condemned this move by Putin.

The EU has previously imposed seven-point sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine war. If the ban is imposed this time, the ban will be imposed eight times.

This is not the first time that Ukrainian lands have been occupied by Russia. Earlier in 2014 Crimea was annexed to the Russian Federation by referendum. Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, Donetsk and Luhansk regions are now under Russian control. Russian President Putin announced today that 15 percent of Ukraine's territory will go out of control. If these areas are lost, Ukraine's agricultural production will decrease by 13 to 16 percent.

 

According to the British media The Guardian , the area of ​​this territory is 90 thousand square kilometers, which is equal to the territory of countries like Hungary or Portugal.

In this context, Economist journalist Shashank Joshi said that after World War II, no country could forcibly occupy such a large territory of any European country.

Despite this, Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced that the military operation in Donetsk would continue. He said, still 40 percent of Donetsk area is under the control of Ukraine. Russian forces will continue to fight until they gain control of these areas.

However, Ukraine has announced that it will continue to fight to get back the territory under Russian control. Ukrainian forces have already regained control of several areas of Kharkiv. Apart from this, the Ukrainian forces are slowly encircling the city of Liman.

Military experts believe that this area will also return to Ukraine. In this situation, the United States has announced to give more weapons. As a result, experts fear that the Russia-Ukraine war may intensify.

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