Ukraine probably doing this as theatre, to convince Russia that this isn’t just a salient. But some residents might actually take them up on it.
Partly, yes. It’s the idea that they’ll do the exact same thing, take over and then, Russia would have to be on the offence in their own country. How hilarious isn’t that?
I think it’s a whee bit of a shaming campaign in military form. I mean all the land they lost in such a short amount time.
How embarrassing.
This makes sense. Russia very likely will try to downplay the refugee crisis. Hence the best move is to move refugees from Kursk and Belgorod into the occupied territories. That turns them properly Russian, makes the refugee crisis look smaller as most Russians will not meet refugees from Kursk and creates a massive problem for Ukraine.
