[NorseViking]

What is illegitimate about the referendum? Do they think anyone in Kherson or Mariupol is going to vote to stay in Ukraine?

[Brellium]

What is illegitimate about the referendum? Do they think anyone in Kherson or Mariupol is going to vote to stay in Ukraine?

Your orcs have deported nearly a million Ukrainians to Siberia, so who is there to vote for the referendum?

[mac_truck]

Do they think anyone in Kherson or Mariupol is going to vote to stay in Ukraine?

The first of many such votes is my guess.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

You invade a neighboring country, kill/deport massive numbers of people, have a pre-existing declaration from your President declaring that Ukraine has no legitimacy as a nation, and you're asking how a referendum whose rules are set and whose votes are counted by Russia is "illegitimate"??

I'd say you're joking, except you're not because you're a Russian expansionist yourself.

[Salohcin]

What is illegitimate about the referendum? Do they think anyone in Kherson or Mariupol is going to vote to stay in Ukraine?

Ah yes tovarich, we can except a free and fair vote held by a foreign occupation force. Just ignore the Russian soldiers with guns standing next to the voting booth. They are just there for security and not for intimidating the voters, right? And let me guess, it’ll be the a Russians counting the votes too. They can be expected to be impartial, right? No, no, there’s nothing illegitimate at all. /sarc

[Lurker]

“Do they think anyone in Kherson or Mariupol is going to vote to stay in Ukraine?”

Not with Russian guns pointed at their heads. It’ll be every bit as legitimate as the last election Saddam Hussein won just before his own people had him hanged by the neck until he was dead.

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