"Russian forces have taken down Ukrainian flags that were still flying over city and oblast offices in Kherson, Skadovsk, and Oleshky and raised Russian flags in their place. If there was ever any question about Russia’s intention to just keep this territory, that’s over." -- Mark Sumner, in DailyKos. Here's a story regarding the flag incident in Russian-occupied Kherson in southern Ukraine near Crimea.
Russian war criminal Vladimir Putin has been clear for many years that he doesn't recognize Ukraine as an independent nation, only an appendage to his fanciful notion of a new Russian empire which he would lead. As he treats dissenters and opponents in his own country with violence and repression, so too would he treat Ukrainians, who now universally despise him and who are fighting heroically to resist him.
