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- Analysis of Putin's Re-election Implications for Ukraine and Potential Western Response | DW News
Analysis of Putin's Re-election Implications for Ukraine and Potential Western Response | DW News
Discover the impact of Vladimir Putin's reelection on Ukraine and potential reactions from the West. Learn more about the implications and ongoing tensions in the region in this insightful report on DW News.
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Russians are set for another six years of Vladimir Putin's rule.
After an election held following a crackdown on political opposition,
Putin faced no meaningful opposition in the vote,
which both the EU and US said was neither free nor fair.
In his victory speech, Putin said he would now focus on Ukraine
two years after a full-scale invasion of Russia's neighbour
that was expected to last only a few days.
And for more, I'm joined now by DW's Eastern Europe editor
Roman Gonshoreenko, Roman, welcome to the studio.
Now Vladimir Putin has extended his rule as expected.
What should we expect from him now that he has secured another term?
Well, basically we can expect more of the same.
So more war, outside of Russia, more war against Ukraine,
but maybe he will try to intimidate the West.
Countries for mass-sovets republics like Moldova
over a neighboring country of Ukraine could be in his focus
because we saw some attempts or at least that looked like
that attempts to destabilize the situation.
A representative from Moldova regions traveled to Moscow,
a representative from a transnistria,
which is a kind of very separatist republic
on Moldova territory, asked the Russian parliament
for support, asked Russia for support.
So that could be coming.
Inside of Russia, he'll be tightening the grip further,
grip on the opposition as well,
although it's hardly possible to do that.
We could also expect in the coming six years,
if we look a little further away,
that maybe Russia will try to close in even more
than before.
So cutting ties with the West, probably cutting things
like YouTube, which is maybe one of the last channels,
media channels, a very important channels,
connecting Russia to the outside world, to the Western world.
And can I ask you what Putin's new term will mean for Ukraine in particular?
Well, as I've just said, it would mean certainly more war,
so that no signs of Russia getting tired of letting me put in showing signs of fatigue
or maybe going for a compromise.
So he's saying, basically, I'm winning and I intend to continue with my goals
goals and his goals actually to destroy Ukraine as a sovereign state as it was established in 1991
after the collapse of the Soviet Union. So he will pursue that goal. And I think in this,
maybe if we look at this year and the next year, maybe in 2025, a lot will depend of how this
war continues and what will happen in the United States, who will be the next president of the
United States. Ukraine is very much dependent on US help. If there is little help, then of course
The first porting might be going at a higher speed.
And what is also important is we should watch the major Ukrainian cities, like Harkiv,
closer to the Russian border and Odessa, a major and very important Black Sea port of Ukraine.
Actually the last one, big one that is left.
We've seen in the past days just prior to the election a lot of talk in Russia itself
