Since Friday and until September 27, the inhabitants of the regions occupied by Russia in Ukraine are called to vote. A way for President Putin to regain control in a conflict that escapes him.
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These referendums in the regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporijia and Kherson should lead to the attachment of these territories to the Russian Federation. According to several testimonies on the spot, the conditions are far from being democratic. Example with this testimony collected by our special envoys in the city of refuge of Zaporijia: Oleksandre, a Ukrainian from the region of Berdiansk, was able to join his family in the occupied zone.
His mother told him about the first day of “voting”, Friday, September 23: “There are four or five Chechen soldiers from Kadirov, armed, who accompany the members of the pseudo referendum commission. therefore have no choice. They sign in the presence of the military and the voting commission.”
“The mayor, who is a collaborator, told them that those who vote against will be put on a bus and deported somewhere.”
Oleksandr’s motherat franceinfo
Shortly before the referendums, the local authorities announced that “to avoid gatherings”there would be no polling station. “It makes no sensecontinues Oleksandr’s mother. The Russians violate all international agreements, all rules. It’s cinema.”
Cinema with concrete consequences: the border between Ukrainian territories and those under Russian control risks becoming impassable.