Officially Russia claims to have incorporated the provinces of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson. But of the four, only Luhansk is under near-complete Russian control. The annexations are supposedly justified by fake referendums which Russia made a show of holding on September 23th-27th, but it cannot even pretend to have consulted populations in areas it did not administer. With the Duma, Russia’s parliament, having formally annexed occupied areas in eastern and southern Ukraine, the country’s government is no longer sure just where the motherland begins. Was this a strategic mess?

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