Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine continues to deliver more surprises to Moscow as nations belonging to the Russian Federation, following past conquests, begin to push for freedom and identity.
The war, which by all intentions was aimed at expanding Russian territory based on the desires of the modern Tsar at the Kremlin, has been nurturing the seed of nationalism among citizens of republics that previously had small voices in geopolitics.
As Putin dreams of reviving the pre-1917 Tsarist Russia, he has been battling insurgents from two Republics: Ingushetia and Buryatia- formerly sleepy territories within the federation, now energised by the war in Ukraine to build opposition from within the federation and outside.
As it waged an unprovoked war against Ukraine, Moscow used citizens of the federation who are not ethnically Russian on the war frontlines with the intention of sparing their own blood.
