If by puppet country you mean the Kharkov People's Republic, it ceased to exist before it could be restored after it was originally destroyed literally overnight in 2014.

More importantly and the fake countries aside, Izyum was Russia's military center of every sort for the entire Northern front. Which itself barely even exist anymore after being rolled up, and it's now more like an extension of the Eastern front. It used to go continously through the entire northern Ukraine.

Nice to see you openly supporting warmongering and stopping pretending you're "anti-war". And that's a funny thing, the same people who just recently used to pretend to fare about the supposedly "Russian" population of Kharkiv, so waiting for them with flowers (they didn't), now call for the total destruction of this huge city after giving a "24 or 48 hours" warning in revenge for the people of Kharkiv turning against and beating back the invaders (even Yanukovych's own former regional boss in Kharkiv has joined the territorial defense) and since then having renamed everything Russian (which they haven't done 2014-2022, they even had Moscow Street where a bunch of Russian police commandos were wasted on like the second day) and even stopped talking Russian.

If by puppet country you mean the Kharkov People's Republic, it ceased to exist before it could be restored after it was originally destroyed literally overnight in 2014.

More importantly and the fake countries aside, Izyum was Russia's military center of every sort for the entire Northern front. Which itself barely even exist anymore after being rolled up, and it's now more like an extension of the Eastern front. It used to go continously through the entire northern Ukraine.

Nice to see you openly supporting warmongering and stopping pretending you're "anti-war". And that's a funny thing, the same people who just recently used to pretend to fare about the supposedly "Russian" population of Kharkiv, so waiting for them with flowers (they didn't), now call for the total destruction of this huge city after giving a "24 or 48 hours" warning in revenge for the people of Kharkiv turning against and beating back the invaders (even Yanukovych's own former regional boss in Kharkiv has joined the territorial defense) and since then having renamed everything Russian (which they didn't do 2014-2022, they even had Moscow Street where a bunch of Russian police commandos were wasted on like the second day) and even stopped talking Russian.