Did you happen to read the report from the Russian press on the election in Crimea?
It was a total fiction. So was this.
Why are you buying into this?
This makes no statement about the Ukraine whatsoever!
It makes a statement about what lengths Putin and his puppets will go go. How can you miss this?
Do you honestly think 94 & 98% of the Ukrainians voted to leave? Really?
This is the same gag line the USSR used for 60 plus years calling their elections free and open, and declaring the party members winners by similar numbers.
These elections have been total frauds.
If its a fraud, how do you explain the high voter turnout and the long lines? Lots of things about elections can be faked but not the numbers and voter enthusiasm. And in an age when every one can upload video to YouTube, that seems scarcely believable.
The real gag line is Kiev and the West are unwilling to recognize that the Ukraine created in 1991 is now dead. Of course, they could have saved themselves the humiliation by acceding to a federal solution for the country in the first place. Whether Ukraine could still remain a unified country, no one knows.