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Before using nukes, there are warnings, this is the first stage. But as far as I can see, putin's regime is roughly getting the terrority it wants, so even with some setbacks, in theory there would be no rush with nukes.

Also, there are the new 300000 men and equipment plus the results of the fake referendums which will make those regions part of russia... for the russian government only, but putin's regime only needs that from a internal political point of view I guess.

If that goes this way, the aftermath would be heavy equipment on those new "boundaries", and "purging" all pro-ukrainian ukrainians from those regions. I guess the threat of nukes would become way more serious if putin's regime army cannot hold the boundaries it really wants (the take more, to get less in the end). In parallel, there is the setup of their mass surveillance systems there in order to conduct the pro-ukrainian ukrainians "purge", which would now be pro-ukrainian russians from the point of view of the russian gov.

Or putin's regime goals are completely different.

About the "newly fossil gas reserved discovered", I saw that, no idea if this is true, a colateral of the real reasons of this war, or part of the disinformation.