“The Kremlin continues to publicly declare territorial claims that go beyond the occupied regions. According to the Institute of War Study (ISW), these statements testify to Moscow’s constant purpose – to destroy the Ukrainian state and subjugate the Ukrainian people.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Isw
Details: On June 30, Putin held a meeting on the development of occupied Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions, during which he often called the occupied territory of Ukraine “Donbass and Novorossiysk”.
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At the same time, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to the words of the mayor of Odessa Gennady Trukhanov that Odesa has its own history and is not a “Russian” city. Peskov stated that the history of the city is “inextricably linked” with Russia.
And Putin’s assistant Volodymyr Medinsky repeated the thesis that Russians and Ukrainians allegedly “one people”, and “ancient Russian lands on both sides of the Dnieper, Novorossiysk and Crimea” allegedly constituted “historical homeland” of Russia.
Earlier, on June 20, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin said that “Ukraine belongs to Russia”, strengthening the signal of intentions to annex even more Ukrainian territories. These messages are constantly repeated by the Kremlin officials, including Odessa, which is continued there by a “Russian city”.
Such statements of the Kremlin coincide with the calls of Gauliter of the temporarily occupied territories of Kherson region Vladimir Saldo in April 2025 to pay territories on both shores of the Dnieper in Kherson, Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
Colonel Pavlo Palis, Deputy Head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine, declared in early June 2025 that Russia intends to occupy the entire territory of Ukraine on the eastern (left) bank of the Dnieper and seize the Odessa region by the end of 2026.
Literally: “Putin and other Kremlin officials constantly indicate that they deny the fact that Ukraine is an independent state with their own history, identity and culture, separate from Russia. The constant commitment of Russian officials to these narratives demonstrates the constant purpose of the Kremlin – to destroy the Ukrainian state.”