In the first days of the invasion, Russian forces established control over and unblocked the North Crimean Canal, effectively rescinding a longstanding water blockage imposed on Crimea by Ukraine after the 2014 Russian annexation of the peninsula
The Kherson region is particularly important for Crimea because it offers control of the canal that delivers fresh water to the peninsula near the Black Sea.
"Russia is here forever,” Russian politician Andrey Turchak, a senior member of Putin’s United Russia party, said in May. "There should be no doubt about this. There will be no return to the past.”
Kherson Oblast, is an oblast in southern Ukraine, part of which is currently administered by Russia. It is located just north of Crimea.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is poised to formalize the annexation of a key Ukrainian district occupied earlier this year,
Stremousov, a pro-Russian blogger wanted for treason by the Ukrainian central government, revealed plans to integrate Kherson into the Russian banking sector. he annexation of Kherson would represent a dramatic rebuff of Zelensky’s offer to begin peace talks if Russian forces withdraw to the territory they held prior to the launch of the offensive in February and signal Putin’s intentions for any territory he is able to seize in the neighboring Donbas region.
“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.”
The annexation of the Kherson region would suggest that Putin seeks the long-term subjugation of the Ukrainian territory linking Donbas (as Donetsk and Luhansk together are known) and Crimea.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...als-plan-to-annex-more-territory-from-ukraine
The Kherson region is particularly important for Crimea because it offers control of the canal that delivers fresh water to the peninsula near the Black Sea.
"Russia is here forever,” Russian politician Andrey Turchak, a senior member of Putin’s United Russia party, said in May. "There should be no doubt about this. There will be no return to the past.”
Kherson Oblast, is an oblast in southern Ukraine, part of which is currently administered by Russia. It is located just north of Crimea.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is poised to formalize the annexation of a key Ukrainian district occupied earlier this year,
Stremousov, a pro-Russian blogger wanted for treason by the Ukrainian central government, revealed plans to integrate Kherson into the Russian banking sector. he annexation of Kherson would represent a dramatic rebuff of Zelensky’s offer to begin peace talks if Russian forces withdraw to the territory they held prior to the launch of the offensive in February and signal Putin’s intentions for any territory he is able to seize in the neighboring Donbas region.
“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.”
The annexation of the Kherson region would suggest that Putin seeks the long-term subjugation of the Ukrainian territory linking Donbas (as Donetsk and Luhansk together are known) and Crimea.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...als-plan-to-annex-more-territory-from-ukraine
