AMERICAN FREE PRESS MICHAEL WALSH: Historians may well consider that the penetration of Ukrainian territory by the Russian armed forces on June 9 to be a pivotal turning point in the capitulation of the Western Alliance’s use of Ukraine as a battering ram against Russia.

‘A symbolic and strategic strike’ was how Western media described the rapid advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the Kyiv-controlled resource-rich Dnipropetrovsk region. 

The invasion in the region (an area larger than Belgium and almost the size of the Netherlands) will be a serious symbolic and strategic blow to Kyiv, The Times of London opined.

Foreign media outlets claimed that the transfer of the oblast to the control of the Russian Armed Forces will be a turning point in the conflict.

It was also noted that the penetration of the Russian​ armed forces in the Dnipropetrovsk region is a strong blow to the already exhausted Ukrainian Armed Forces and its NATO sponsors.

Nor is the army’s entrance into the undeniable Ukrainian territory an isolated case.

The NATO Alliance and EU elite suffered further demoralization when, simultaneously, the Russian Armed Forces penetrated the Ukrainian Sumy region and the Ukrainian-controlled segment of the Donetsk People’s Republic.

A similar warning appeared on the pages of the American Associated Press. The agency notes that “Russia’s advance will be a serious blow to the already overburdened Ukrainian Armed Forces,” especially against the backdrop of a pause in negotiations and the successes of the Russian army in other regions.

The military publication Military Watch claims that ​“the possible transition of the Dnipropetrovsk region under the control of the Russian army will be a turning point in the conflict​” due to the strategic location of the region.

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev was at his acidic best: “The Teflon skin of the Bandera state is shrinking. Disinfection against parasites continues,​” the politician said

The former Russian president explained that the beginning of the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces in the Dnipropetrovsk region was caused, among other things, by Ukraine’s unwillingness to recognize the realities of the conflict during the negotiations.

This is where the unfolding tale gets interesting. “Residents of Dnepropetrovsk and Sumy regions will take part in the referendum on the creation of people’s republics, if they take place. However, the current goal is to create a security buffer zone.”

This was said in a conversation by Russian military expert, reserve captain of the first rank Vasily Dandykin, with aif.ru.

Earlier, the possibility of creating in Moscow-occupied aligned republics was admitted by military correspondent Alexander Sladkov.

He added that Ukrainian experts are already talking about this today in light of the active advancement of Russian troops in the Dnepropetrovsk and Sumy regions.

“Residents will take part in the referendum. But for now, everything is in the hands of Russian fighters, commanders at all levels,” Dandykin said.

He added that as part of the referendum, citizen surveys and various sociological studies will likely be conducted.

“And, of course, active work will be carried out to counter several years of enemy misinformation activities,” Dandykin noted.

At the same time, the military spokesman noted that there is still a lot of work to be done, and it is not yet worth talking about creating further Moscow-aligned republics.

“It is not enough to occupy the territory, you need to consolidate, you need to form an administration, as is currently happening in the Kharkov region.

“And then politics should be involved. And let’s do it this way: now the goal is to create a buffer security zone,” Dandykin concluded.

Earlier, Dandykin named the conditions for the creation of the Dnepropetrovsk and Sumy People’s Republics by Russia.

There are antecedents such as the 1938 Austrian and Sudetenland referendums, followed by the 1939 Saar plebiscites after these regions’ annexation by the armed forces of pre-war Germany.

Russia’s occupation of undisputed Ukrainian territories reveals Moscow’s strategy to occupy and de-nazify the newly occupied regions before inviting the territories’ electorate to decide their future.

US Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland’s concept of Western-style democracy with the false promise of EU and NATO membership will be exposed for the sham it was.

Bear in mind that since the luckless election of Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People ​Party, the Ukrainian people have been as mind-controlled as the population of Kim Jung Un’s North Korea.

Zelensky, who for over one year has held no legal mandate to govern, has ruthlessly eliminated opposition parties, criminalized sections of the media that criticized him, banned the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and arrested or forced into exile all opponents, including members of his party.

How will the newly occupied region’s electorate vote when finally aware of the deception and abuses by the NATO-Western Alliance.

Allowed the opportunity to follow the examples of the Donetsk, Lugansk and Crimea referendums, Putin will be confident of a conquest of Eastern Ukraine by the ballot box. 

The bones of what is left of Ukraine will hardly be worth fighting over.

POINTS TO PONDER: ‘Russians and Ukrainians are essentially one people. What is happening now is an immense tragedy; it is like a civil war between brothers who stand on different sides. But overall, they are not, to a large extent, responsible for this,’ ~ Vladimir Putin.

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