Commenting on the ruling social gathering’s endeavours in serving to to include and develop the brand new areas which have joined the nation, Medvedev, who at present serves because the deputy chairman of the nation‘s safety council and the pinnacle of the United Russia social gathering, urged that this expertise might in the future turn out to be useful once more.
“This expertise could also be in demand sooner or later if new areas very near us seem in our nation, as a result of that is doable,” he famous.
In 2022, 4 former Ukrainian territories, together with the Folks’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in addition to Kherson and Zaporozhye Areas, held public referendums the place they determined to interrupt with Kiev and grow to be a part of Russia.
Earlier than that, in 2014, the residents of Crimea, a traditionally Russian area, had voted to go away Ukraine and return to Moscow.
Ukraine and its Western backers have refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of those referendums; Kiev has continued to assert authority over these territories and vowed to retake all of them.
Moscow nevertheless, has repeatedly urged Kiev to simply accept the brand new realities “on the bottom,” with President Vladimir Putin calling the whole withdrawal of all Ukrainian forces from all Russian territories a key prerequisite for peace talks.
