Voting at gunpoint: Moment soldiers armed with assault rifles 'force residents to cast their vote in 'sham' referendum in Russian occupied regions of Ukraine'

Daily Mail ^ | 9/25/2022 | Tom Brown

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The Kremlin appears to have sent soldiers to force Ukrainians to vote in its staged referendums at gunpoint, according to residents who say troops came to their homes in occupied territories to enforce the 'vote'.

'My family was just forced to vote at gunpoint in Russian cosplay of a "referendum” in southern Ukraine,' said Maxim Eristavi, journalist and co-founder of Hromadske International, a broadcasting station in Ukraine.

The Ukrainian journalist posted a video purporting to show armed soldiers entering the hallways where his family live and forcing them to vote in favour of joining Russia.

Western countries have accused Russia of staging illegitimate referendums in Ukraine as a pretext for annexing parts of its neighbour.

Kyiv called out the exercise as a bare-faced attempt by Russia to hold on to occupied territory now threatened by the Ukrainian army's counter-offensive.

Eristavi added that his family members were also forced to take part in the same exercises in Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014 — in an attempt to fool foreign audiences into thinking the voting was free and fair.

Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Crimea are all Ukrainian regions at least partially under Russian occupation where the referendums are being held — with the results fixed by Moscow.

Russian state media said the armed guards enforcing the door-to-door voting are there for 'security'.

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"I’m a former intelligence specialist. We look from the adversarial point of view without bias. It’s training". Perhaps, but I'm a sharp dresser and one hell of a good dancer. Now THAT is funny!!!, appreciate the revelation of your comment. Hope others will recognize as well.

[servantoftheservant]

Where is your data from?

Secondly, the US ran an Color Revolution operation that removed a truly neutral President of Ukraine and replaced him with a WEF stooge, Zelensky. A neutral Ukraine died with the installation of a puppet.

Do you acknowledge this? ‘Independent’ Ukraine doesn’t exist.