Ukraine, intelligence: "Putin wants to divide the country between North and South, like Korea"

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Ukraine like Korea. Dividing the country in two could be the new goal of the Russian president Vladimir Putinin an attempt to limit the damage of a war that is not going as he would have expected

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epa09853243 A member of the Ukrainian military walks into the damaged building of Kharkiv Regional State Administration, that was heavily shelled by Russian forces, in Kharkiv, northeast Ukraine, 27 March 2022. The building was heavily shelled on 01 March, and the searching operation for victims is still going on. The bodies of 24 people have been found under the rubble, according to the information provided by Ukrainian State Emergency Service. Kharkiv, Ukraine s second-largest city of 1.5 million people, which lies about 25 miles from the Russian border, has been heavily shelled by Russian forces over the past weeks, with many civilians killed in the city. EPA / ROMAN PILIPEY

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It is the Kiev intelligence who talks about the “Korean sceneryWhich arrived on the Kremlin table later over a month of war. The Ukrainian army and civilians showed a resilience that Putin had not taken into account. Very high losses in the ranks of the Russian army, even if the numbers have not yet been confirmed by official data, show the military and strategic strength of Kiev

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epa09855168 A destroyed building is seen after shelling in Chernihiv, Ukraine, 27 March 2022 (made available on 28 March 2022). Residential buildings and civilian infrastructure has been hit by Russian airstrikes. On 24 February, Russian troops had entered Ukrainian territory in what the Russian president declared a 'special military operation', resulting in fighting and destruction in the country, a huge flow of refugees, and multiple sanctions against Russia. EPA / NATALIIA DUBROVSKA

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He is confident of Moscow’s new plan Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukrainian military intelligence. Putin would therefore return to aim for the south-eastern part of the country, where there are for example Crimea and Donbassand no longer to all of Ukraine

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A soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the trenches near Verkhnetoretske, Ukraine, on November 11, 2021. (Photo by Alfons Cabrera / Sipa USA)

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Budanov warns: even if Moscow only takes control of the South and East, Ukraine would give way to guerrilla actions in the territories controlled by the Russians. However, there is still no certainty of Moscow’s future moves. It is said that in order to take control of the pro-Russian territories, Putin could also think about non-military moves, focusing for example on Russian citizenship granted in recent years to nearly one million residents in Donbass

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DONETSK REGION, UKRAINE - MARCH 27, 2022: Cars burned in shelling attacks in the city of Mariupol. Tension began to escalate in Donbass on 17 February, with the Donetsk and the Lugansk People's Republics reporting the most intense shellfire in months. The Russian Armed Forces are carrying out a special military operation in Ukraine in response to requests from the leaders of the Donetsk and the Lugansk People's Republics. Valentin Sprinchak / TASS / Sipa USA

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On February 21, Russia recognized the two separatist republics of Lugansk and Donetsk, the two territories it points to in the Donbass. Among the reasons behind the “special military operation”Launched in Ukraine, there would be to“ denazify ”the country. The reference is to the presence on the territory of the Azov Brigademilitary group not affiliated with Kiev that Putin accuses of “genocide” against the Russian and pro-Russian population of Ukraine, especially the Donbass

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epaselect epa09853341 The head of self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) Leonid Pasechnik (L) leaves Luhansk region administration building in Luhansk, Ukraine, 27 March 2022. A referendum on the entry of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) into Russia may be held in the near future, said the head of self-proclaimed LPR Leonid Pasechnik. On 24 February Russian troops had entered Ukrainian territory in what the Russian president declared a 'special military operation', resulting in fighting and destruction in the country, a huge flow of refugees, and multiple sanctions against Russia. EPA / SERGEI ILNITSKY

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On March 27, the news spread that Lugansk is thinking of a referendum to join Russia. The leader of the republic announced the initiative Leonid Pasechnik (in the picture)

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Pasechnik then corrected the pitch, saying that in reality no concrete preparations for the popular consultation are currently underway. In addition to Kiev’s obvious no, doubts about this possibility have also arisen among Russian politicians

The VIth Forum of the Regions of Russia and Belarus in the Tauride Palace. Leonid Kalashnikov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots at the forum. July 17, 2019. Russia, St. Petersbourg. Photo credit: Alexander Koriakov / Kommersant / Sipa USA

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Such a referendum is “inadvisable,” he said Leonid Kalashnikov (pictured), chairman of the Duma’s committee on the affairs of former Soviet republics. The hypothesis is “premature”, because the two republics were “part of Ukraine until recently”

DONETSK REGION, UKRAINE - MARCH 27, 2022: A mine warning sign in the city of Mariupol. Tension began to escalate in Donbass on 17 February, with the Donetsk and the Lugansk People's Republics reporting the most intense shellfire in months. The Russian Armed Forces are carrying out a special military operation in Ukraine in response to requests from the leaders of the Donetsk and the Lugansk People's Republics. Valentin Sprinchak / TASS / Sipa USA

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“Any” false referendum “in the temporarily occupied territories is legally insignificant and it will not have legal consequences “, ruled instead the spokesman of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Oleg Nikolenkosaying he was sure that no country in the world would recognize the validity of such a consultation (in the photo, an anti-elimination signal in the Donetsk territory)

epaselect epa09784378 Russian troops move towards Ukraine on the road near Armiansk, Crimea, 25 February 2022. Russian troops entered Ukraine on 24 February prompting the country's president to declare martial law and triggering a series of announcements by Western countries to impose severe economic sanctions on Russia . EPA / STRINGER

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And if even Kalashnikov denies for now that such initiatives exist, history teaches us not to trust. Russia has already unilaterally annexed the Crimeaafter the positive outcome of a referendum (not recognized by the international community) to break away from Kiev (in the photo, Russian tanks in Crimea)

KHERSON REGION, UKRAINE - MARCH 23, 2022: A serviceman of Russian engineer units demines local farmalnds, with more than 12,000 explosives already defused. The Russian Armed Forces currently carry out a special military operation in Ukraine. Russian Defense Ministry / TASS / Sipa USA

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The possibility of such consultations would also have been raised in the region of Kherson, also in the south of Ukraine. However, the inhabitants protested against this hypothesis (in the photo, a Russian soldier in the Kherson region)

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