Russian Officials ‘Panicking’ in Face of Ukraine Counteroffensive: ISW

Russian Officials ‘Panicking’ in Face of Ukraine Counteroffensive: ISW

The appeal by Moscow proxies to annex the eastern Ukrainian regions of Luhansk and Donetsk shows how much Kyiv’s counteroffensive is worrying Vladimir Putin, according to an assessment by a U.S. think tank.

The Russian president and Kremlin strategists appear to be pondering their next move after Ukrainian forces in Kharkiv in the north-east of the country recaptured more than 3,000 square miles of territory.

The legislatures of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DNR) and (LNR) in the Donbas region are calling for their leaderships to hold a referendum to recognize them as Russian subjects, in a status that aimed to bolster Moscow’s military support, said the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

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