Russia will struggle to govern the four Ukrainian provinces annexed by Putin, according to a Washington think tank.
Russian authorities will"struggle to establish governance structures" over four annexed Ukrainian provinces due to"bureaucratic incompetence," according to the Washington D.C. based Institute for the Study of War .merging Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson into the Russian Federation on Friday. This followed referendums in the four regions, which were dismissed as"rigged" and a"sham" by Western powers.
In its latest assessment of Russia's Ukraine invasion, published on September 30, the ISW said Russia will likely struggle to control the annexed territory. "Organizing governance for these four forcibly annexed oblasts would be bureaucratically challenging for any state after Russian forces systematically killed, arrested, or drove out the Ukrainian officials who previously ran the regional administrations.
On Saturday Ukrainian forces recaptured the Donetsk city of Lyman, with Russia admitting its troops had withdrawn"because of the threat of encirclement."
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