ICYMI - opinion The day after the speech, Ukraine managed to encircle and capture Lyman, a strategic town in Donetsk, showing that annexation is no shield against the Ukrainian advance.
In that speech, Putin used the sham referendums to argue that he was simply defending citizens’ inalienable right to self-determination, as enshrined in the UN charter — because gunpoint voting is self-determination, apparently.
He then accused Kyiv of intimidating millions of referendum participants with violence and death, a claim which there is no evidence for and which doesn’t make sense anyways.
— another bizarre statement designed to make Russians paranoid and defensive while absolving them of moral responsibility for the war.Article content And yet, rather than boost morale and reconsolidate support, Putin’s annexation speech, with all its bluster and pomp, appears to have already become a liability.
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