How the scheduling of pseudo-referendums came as a surprise, even for collaborators and russian politicians
Recently, russia initiated “referendums” to be held on September, 23–27, in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya, and Kherson oblasts. This decision came as a surprise to the occupation administrations and to russian politicians who comment on the course of the war. This is evidenced by the analysis of their public statements.
It can be assumed that the decision to call referendums came up spontaneously in the kremlin, without consulting the occupation ad...