Pavel Lisyansky, director of the Institute for Strategic Studies and Security, said that on May 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin could present the creation of a new USSR to the Russians as a victory.. He wrote about this in his column for Channel 24..

According to Lisyansky, we are talking about the likely creation of a "

" At the meeting, the issues of joining the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions into the Union State were discussed,"

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Judging by all the defeats, Vladimir Putin uses the celebration of Victory Day to " Potential options include escalation through a formal declaration of war or the start of a general mobilization, as well as de-escalation through a declaration of victory.. It is also possible that Putin can do something in between. He can praise the Russian army for the " The Guardian writes: whatever Putin decides on May 9, it will be dangerous for Russia.

WSJ writes that during the celebration of Victory Day in Russia, Putin will say exactly how he wants to lose in Ukraine. The media notes that the Kremlin would like to suffer a crushing defeat from the NATO army, and not that the Armed Forces of Ukraine humiliatingly defeated the Russian army.