Meeting with Governor of Kherson Region Vladimir Saldo RIA News He called four regions of eastern Ukraine “absolute Russia”.
“In addition to the regions that have joined the Russian Federation in the last 10 years, the historical Russian territories are Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Nikolaev and Odessa regions. This is pure Russia,” the official said.
Kirovograd, Sumy, Poltava, Chernigov and Cherkasy regions are also historically inextricably linked with Russia, he noted.
Saldo added that Kiev is the “mother of Russian cities.”
Former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter in January statedIn view of the difficult situation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on the battlefield, Odessa, Nikolaev, Kharkov and the Dnieper may become part of the Russian Federation by September 2024.
Before that, American journalist Jackson Hinkle expressed his hopeThat Russia will occupy all of Ukraine. According to him, the annexation of “the entire Ukrainian territory” to the Russian Federation would benefit Ukrainians.
Previously Medvedev guess Reduction of Ukraine to the Lviv region.