Published: Sep 30, 2022, 19:50 IST | Updated: Sep 30, 2022, 19:50 IST
"There's no question that this is a major change in the course of the war and I think the primary purpose of this annexation coupled with the military mobilisation. Putin is communicating to everybody in the world and to his own people that he is all in this war and he has committed his life and the state of Russia in this," says Lt Col (R) Daniel L. Davis, military expert.