What Does This Mean for the War?

The vote is going to be overwhelmingly supportive of joining Russia. The fear is that once they do join the Russian Federation officially in the eyes of Russian law, we've heard that publicly from some of the officials saying that the Russian Armed Forces will be reinforcing those areas. But most importantly, for the war, and specifically for Ukrainian goal and Zelensky's goal has for a long time been to bring the borders back to what they were before February 24th. And we have no choice but to defend ourselves.