MADRID, September 27 (EUROPA PRESS) –
British intelligence services consider that there is a “realistic possibility” that Russian President Vladimir Putin will announce on Friday the official annexation of the territory of eastern Ukraine where the referendum is being held during these days.
Putin plans to address both houses of Parliament that day, so London hopes he will seize the opportunity to make an announcement that, as the Kremlin has done, will come soon after the results of Tuesday’s concluding consultations are known. .
British military intelligence predicts that the annexation will help Putin to justify his military offensive and try to “consolidate patriotic support” for the cause, after recent defeats on the battlefield and social unrest that appears to have stemmed from the call-up of reservists.
The Ukrainian authorities and Western governments did not give any validity to the referendum starting on September 23 in the Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions under the control of Russian forces and, in fact, blocs such as the European Union have threatened to impose more sanctions. if Moscow continues its expansionist plans.
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