Quote from: darkangel11 on March 21, 2024, 08:57:13 PM

Quote from: pooya87 on March 21, 2024, 02:47:10 PM

That's one of the smaller reasons since the annexed regions are also considered "Russian borders" now (95% of them voted for Putin in the recent election in Russia).

Where did you get this from? Let me guess, official Russian media channels that reported almost everybody voted for Putin. The whole country is pro Putin. The problem is that you cannot and will not get any legit information from Russia. In one of the elections they had so many fake votes for Putin that the total sum of votes exceeded 100% Cheesy

Yes, the majority voted for Putin. No, it wasn't even close to 80%, not to mention 95%. Things like that don't happen unless the election is tampered with, and Russian elections are every single time. Even the one were Putin got elected for his first term was fixed by the FSB.

That doesn't matter. Those regions are still under Russian occupation and control whether 95% voted for Putin or 5%. We have no evidence to know which percentage is correct either. Just the propaganda outlets of two opposing sides, each reporting their own nonsense.

The discussion above wasn't about correctness of their election either, it's about buffer zones. The point I made was that these regions are currently as part of the Russian federation as republics or a federated state that even participate in the Russian elections and vote for the same president, as opposed to being a separate country voting for their own president. This means although they may resemble a buffer zone but they are not exactly one.
A buffer zone for Russia is something like Belarus.