Russian President Vladimir Putin is poised to formalize the annexation of a key Ukrainian district occupied earlier this year.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is poised to formalize the annexation of a key Ukrainian district occupied earlier this year, as a pro-Russian resident given a leadership role in the occupation government has signaled that Moscow will repeat the political maneuver that the Kremlin used to create a justification for control of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014.
“Stalemate is not an option for us,” Zelensky told the Financial Times on Tuesday. “We cannot go on living in this position in hostilities. ... But we have already lost too many people in order to simply to cede our territory. That is not possible.
"By early March, Russian troops had secured the entire peninsula. On March 6, the Crimean Supreme Council voted to ask to accede to Russia," former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer recalled."The council scheduled a referendum for March 16, which offered two choices: join Russia or return to Crimea’s 1992 constitution, which gave the peninsula significant autonomy. Those who favored Crimea remaining part of Ukraine under the current constitution had no box to check.
Zelensky argued that Ukrainian forces have superior morale but lack the weaponry they need to drive the Russians back from the territory they have managed to take over the last two months.
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