Putin announces Russia's plans to integrate occupied Ukrainian territories within six years - ISW
According to Ukrinform, this is stated in a report by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
Putin said that Russia plans to have the occupied territories of Ukraine on a par with Russia in unspecified "key areas" by 2030.
This indicates that Russia is starting to implement long-term plans and does not involve any territorial concessions, the ISW report says.
In addition, Putin called on Russian banks not to be afraid of Western sanctions and to intensify their work in the occupied territories and noted that Russian subjects have established patronage networks with the occupied regions of Ukraine.
As Ukrinform reported earlier, ISW wrote that Russian President Vladimir Putin had strengthened his maximalist and deliberately vague territorial goals in Ukraine by making another statement on January 31 about the creation of an alleged "demilitarized zone"
