Russia Can't Control Ukrainians In Seized Territories

Russian forces struggle to establish social control in temporarily occupied territories, the US think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said, Ukraine Daily reported, adding that Russian forces are “incapable of controlling local populations, enforcing the use of the Russian ruble, or conducting bureaucratic processes.”

Photo Insert: Ukrainian soldiers firing anti-tank missiles

Russian forced mobilization is also “highly unlikely to generate meaningful combat power,” serving only to aggravate low morale and poor discipline among Russian troops and proxies.

The ISW stressed that should Russia capture Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, it is unlikely to have the forces required to capture more of Donetsk Oblast.

Meanwhile, Russia’s proxies seek to nationalize Ukrainian state property in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Yevhen Balytsky, the head of Russia’s proxies in the region’s occupied areas, has signed a so-called “nationalization decree” to seize land plots, natural resources, and strategic enterprises owned by Ukraine, Andriy Trofimov, a deputy of Balytsky, said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed that more than 200,000 Ukrainian children have been deported to Russia. In his daily address on June 1,

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia continues to forcibly move both adults and children into mostly remote areas of Russia, underscoring that this is one of Moscow’s “most heinous war crimes.”

He added that the children deported include orphans and children separated from their families.

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