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RUSSIA PUSHES THE PANIC BUTTON AND RAISES RISK OF NUCLEAR WAR

Analysis by Ishaan Tharoor
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September 21, 2022 at 12:01 a.m. EDT
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government in Moscow in January 2020. (Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/Kremlin/Reuters)

What many watchers of the war in Ukraine feared is about to happen. Separatist
leaders in four enclaves controlled by Russian forces and their proxies in
Ukraine announced “referendums” to be staged Friday through Tuesday to decide
whether their territories would join Russia. These votes, which are illegal
under both Ukrainian and international law and viewed by most analysts as a
sham, are similar to what Russia unfurled following its 2014 annexation of
Crimea. Unlike then, the Kremlin’s military hold over these statelets in
Ukraine’s Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions is more tenuous,
with Ukraine in the midst of an ongoing offensive to push Russian troops out of
more areas of the country.


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