News about referendums, Ukraine, and Russia

The seizure of Chasiv Yar would allow Russia to threaten larger, strategically significant towns — Kostiantynivka, Sloviansk, & Druzkhivka — that together form the fortress wall of Ukraine’s main defense of the Donetsk region, @georgewbarros tells @AP isw.pub/3xKd3PC

Living with no illusions, we should recognize that "Russian officials" and key Russian propagandists regularly state directly that their goal is not to keep currently occupied territories. At all. That is not the real goal of the war. They want to control the whole #Ukraine:…

Mr. Ivan, 88 years old, left the occupied part of Ocheretyne, Donetsk region, on his own in order not to receive Russian citizenship. He walked all night and was under shelling to reach the territory controlled by Ukraine. Volunteers met him on the road and took him to a safe… pic.twitter.com/5YG6sc1z5E

"They say: let’s go to Avdiivka! Let’s go!" A typical representative of the Russian army of looters, murderers and rapists is examining the "liberated" territories, looting apartments and houses damaged by shelling and abandoned by Ukrainian civilians, taking out children’s… pic.twitter.com/YBg0N3FT1Y