"British Intelligence has said that Russian authorities have been directed to build Russian identity and increase the use of the Russian language in the territory it illegally occupies in Ukraine. This is according to a decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, published on 25 November 2025. The document, titled 'Strategy of Russia's national policy in the period to 2036, highlights a continued Russification policy, forcing Russian language, identity and culture on to the residents of sovereign Ukrainian territory."
"Russia now defines both occupied and unoccupied Ukrainian territory in the Ukrainian oblasts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, as well as Crimea, as being part of the Russian Federation. This directly contradicts Russia's own formal recognition of Ukraine 's independence and sovereignty following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The document's reference to these sovereign Ukrainian oblasts as 'historical territories of the Russian state emphasises the overtly imperialist aspect of Russia 's continuing efforts to subjugate Ukraine."
"In 2024 Putin lowered the nuclear doctrine accusing the West of helping Ukraine with billions of dollars' worth of military equipment and sharing battlefield intelligence. In 2020 Vladimir Putin set the current nuclear doctrine which means if his red line of a conventional attack on Russia n territory, a threat against the state or in the event of a nuclear attack Moscow will respond with nuclear weapons. At the time the Kremlin spoke"
A decree signed by Vladimir Putin on 25 November 2025 directs Russian authorities to build Russian identity and increase Russian language use in Ukrainian territory occupied by Russia. The Strategy of Russia's national policy to 2036 mandates continued Russification, forcing Russian language, identity and culture onto residents of sovereign Ukrainian oblasts. Defence intelligence states the policy forms part of efforts to extirpate Ukrainian culture and delegitimise Ukrainian statehood. Russia now defines both occupied and unoccupied oblasts including Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Crimea as part of the Russian Federation. The decree labels these oblasts as historical Russian territories and threatens that annexed territories will remain under Russian sovereignty. Putin adjusted nuclear doctrine in 2024 and the 2020 doctrine permits nuclear response if red lines are crossed.
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