This shelling during voting explains the presence of Russian soldiers in numerous voting areas.
The rised hand vote in Kosovo in 2008 for independence wasn’t even close to a referendum (which is taking place in Donetsk, Luhansk, etc) went against the Serbian constitution, thus was without the permission of Serbian authorities, and yet was hastily accepted by the west/NATO/EU.
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Ukraine Threatens 5-Year Prison Sentence For Anyone Voting In “Sham Referendums”
“Starting last
month Ukrainian lawmakers began seeking to implement severe consequences for those participating in Russia-sponsored referendums in occupied territories of Ukraine. For example, a law is being pushed through parliament which criminalizes obtaining a Russian passport in temporarily occupied territories, Ukrainian sources reported last week, according to Yahoo News.
Proposed possible punishments have included losing Ukrainian citizenship, or even lengthy jail sentences. But other officials have argued for a more compromising approach given the necessity of survival in occupied areas. But now the Ukrainian government has reiterated its willingness to impose steep penalties for even participating in any Kremlin-sponsored vote to join the Russian Federation.
Russian President Putin’s Wednesday morning address announcing partial mobilization also affirmed plans to move forward with referendums in the LPR, DPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.
Ukraine has responded by warning its citizens that any official who promotes or organizes the voting faces a “prison term of five to ten years” – as well as possible asset seizure by the state, and being barred from employment in select positions for up to 15 years.
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Tucker Carlson reported that Zelensky locked up political opponents, painted all opposition political parties and media with a broad brush, that they’re all pro-Putin if they disagreed with him, and so on.
What are they going to do, catch the shells and throw them back??
GTFO.
You mean the sham vote in Kosovo in 2008...
Russia shelled Zaporizhzhia city after preventing it from having a single vote in this sham referendum. Russia also shelled a building in occupied Zaporizhzhia because the occupants refused to go put and vote.
Not only that, the only way Russia can control the city after this sham referendum is to bomb it to smithereens and send tens of thousands of soldiers in to mop up what’s left.
Ukraine is witnessing a clear attempt by Russia to legitimise the destruction of the Oblast capital. The population of Zaporizhzhia city is thinking it’ll be worse than Mariupol; they are absolutely terrified.
My mailbox on a humanitarian support group is full of parents in the city begging for charities to help get their children out before Russia declares the result. One mother wrote, “They are not voting in a referendum, they are signing our death warrant”.
Russia could, inside a week, declare the entire population of Zaporizhzhia city to be enemy combatants and just bomb it to pieces for no reason other than it’s completely under Ukrainian control with no separatist movement ever gaining a foothold.
According to sources on the Russian side yesterday, just over 50% of those allowed to vote (in Russia, Kherson, and Russian held areas of Zaporizhzhia and the Donbas) have done so but the elegible voters constitute at most 60% of the population of Zaporizhzhia Oblast in January 2022.
If that doesn’t improve Russia will effectively be calling a 30% vote for annexation with 40% not even allowed to vote, a thumping majority.
We still have no idea what Russia is planning to do with the 700,000 Zaporizhzhia city residents and refugees who were prevented from voting.
The optimist in me thinks Russia will take all of the LDNR but pitch a partition of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. Take the deal, or kiss goodbye to two whole cities.