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The members of the Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament, unanimously ratified an agreement for the annexation of the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk and the regions of Kherson and Zaporizhia. Despite international rejection, various organizations such as the UN, the European Union, NATO and actors such as the United States did not do much to prevent incorporation. What will these annexations mean for both Russia and the West? We analyze it in our program.
The incorporation of the Ukrainian territories leads Russia to make a modification to article 65 of the Constitution of the Federation, which goes from 85 federal entities to 89. The population of Russia would also go from 147 million to more than 150 million citizens.
Although the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk used to be majority Russian-speaking, Russian will now be the official language of daily use, of the media and of public administration. The use of the Ukrainian language will only be allowed in informal conversations, while the Russian ruble becomes legal tender.
Moscow has launched the transition plan for the full incorporation of the territories, which is expected to be completed in January 2026.
According to an opinion poll conducted by the Center for the Study of Public Opinion, which is close to the Kremlin, 75% of Russians support the entry into Russia of the people’s republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, as well as that of the liberated territories of Zaporizhia and Kherson.
The incorporation of the four regions is a triumph for Russia, which also confirmed the mobilization of 200,000 men to the battle zone. What response at the military level can Ukraine give? Is Russia really in trouble? Will the international community put pressure on the Kremlin? What will be the next step? We analyze it in this edition of El Debate from the hand of our guests:
– Román Ortiz, security and defense analyst at the International Security Center of the Francisco de Vitoria University.
– Jesús Agreda Rudenko, internationalist and professor at the Department of International Relations of the Faculty of Political Sciences of the Pontifical Javeriana University of Bogotá.
