It is nervous of the Kremlin. Why Putin Kherson and Nova Kakhovka
And even after the forced recognition of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "Attempts", we see what nervousness in Moscow responds to our own chance of loss of control over the Kherson region, which, I think, testifies to the importance of the region for the Kremlin, - writes Vitaliy Portnikov for Crimea. Video of Kherson Region for Vladimir Putin is a survival area. The area of survival of his plans for the maritime blockade of Ukraine.
The survival area of hope that will be occupied by the entire Ukrainian south and cut off Ukraine from the sea. The survival area of occupied Crimea. Let's stop on the last. When in 2014 the Kremlin made a decision on the occupation and annexation of the peninsula, I asked simple questions among other experts.
Is Vladimir Putin not realizing that Crimea is not an island, and has never existed in his history without an inseparable connection with the mainland? Is Vladimir Putin not realizing that Perekop Crimea will not replace any bridge? Is Vladimir Putin not understanding how the XXI century is different from Catherine's past Crimea? And not even the fact that the Empress initially established control of the mainland around the peninsula - the current southern lands of Ukraine, and then took up the Crimea.
And in the fact that in several centuries the population and economic needs of the population have changed. Simply put, Crimea will not live without water from the Dnieper. Putin seems to have not understood it. We have repeatedly been able to make sure that with the ability to ask questions about the consequences of certain actions in the Russian authorities. But when they realized, they made conclusions, and it seems not in favor of common sense.
Because common sense could whisper a seditious opinion that the occupation of Crimea - despite the rising rating of Vladimir Putin - was originally a banal political stupidity. And the desire to prove that it is not stupidity, but political success, has led to the decision to occupy the entire Ukrainian south. To restore, so to speak, the historical connection of Crimea with the mainland is only the opposite way. Include the mainland in Russia.
That is why we have been heard all last months about the possibility of conducting such "referendums" in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions about accession to Russia. And that is why in Moscow and they do not want to lose the battle for Kherson. And especially the battle for a new Kakhovka. The battle for Dnipro water.
That is why it is now important for Russian propaganda to "do not consider" the statements of Ukrainian politicians that Kyiv will continue to strive for the restoration of the territorial integrity of the country, until the south de -occupation. In the virtual political reality of the Kremlin, Russia allegedly "came forever" and will not give its "area of survival". But this is the reality of past years.