Guardian - Live Blog: Reports 4.15pm post the following, " Four Russian-occupied regions in Ukraine have said they are planning to hold “referendums” on joining the Russian Federation in a series of coordinated announcements that could indicate the Kremlin has made a decision to formally annexe the territories "
Lets Get Real:
The fixed referendums could be used as a way for Putin to threaten the Ukraine and the West with Nuclear War. As the Daily Mail notes, Putin could use the vote as a way to have a general mobilisation of the public in to the Army. Putin might say, since these lands have voted to be part of the Russian Federation then they come under the nuclear protection of Russia. In other words, this WAR in the Ukraine could go to the nuclear level should the Ukraine take back more land from Russia. This is a scary notion, would Putin really go that far, the KYIV Government is not going to give up taking its LAND BACK, and the US and the UK will not place pressure on them to stop, of course there are other weak European States who might take fright, France and Germany would not be a surprise. Even if Putin goes this far, the WEST cannot buckle, because next it will be the Baltic States and then Poland. The Russian leader has a weak hand and has started a illegal WAR, and worse his troops have lost what they held, so Putin might just do something this drastic, the West has to watch Putin over the next few days and weeks. After the Queen's Funeral the outside world has come back to bite.