The former mayor of the Russian city of Krasnodar has been chosen to head the new government that the Russians have installed in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine, part of which the Russians have seized. The appointment is the latest in a series of appointments, which Kyiv says are part of Russian efforts to annex its territories.
Andrei Aleksejenko resigned yesterday, Thursday, as mayor of the city of Kranodar, which is the 16th largest city in Russia. He will now head the newly appointed Russian cabinet in Kharkiv province, state news agency TASS reported today, citing a decree of the local Russian-appointed administration.
Kharkiv Province, which has been partially occupied by Russian troops, surrounds Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv. It stretches north of the Lugansk and Dionetsk regions that Moscow is seeking to seize on behalf of separatist forces that have declared independence from Kyiv.
Russian officials have said in the past that the occupied territories of Ukraine will never return to Kiev’s control and that referendums on their accession to Russia could be held in the fall. Ukraine has called them “pseudo-referendums” and vowed to prevent them.
The Russian military currently controls less than half of Kharkiv’s territory. Russian forces abandoned an offensive against Kharkiv in May after strong Ukrainian resistance, but continue to shell the city from positions far from its outskirts.
Source: Capital
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