prove to me it was false
The Ukrainian "referenda" were false on the face of it. Even the claimed totals were outrageous. You could not get 98% of the people in a poll to agree that the sky is blue. They would have been more convincing if the results were 55-60%. But this is not how the Soviets/Putin Russia counts votes. They must have used North Korean voting machines. Keep trying to push the Russian line if you want but no one is buying it.