"Will not change the position of the Armed Forces." The occupiers of the Russian Federation want to hold "referendums" in the captured territories of four regions of Ukraine - what is known
NV has collected everything that is now known about the illegal intentions of the Russian Federation. On the eve of L/DNR fighters, they addressed their leaders, asking to hold pseudo -referendums on the "acceptance of the occupied territories of Ukraine in the Russian Federation".
Video of the day of the statement was heard shortly after the Armed Forces counter -offensive: on September 14, the Ministry of Defense reported that since September 6 (a week) Ukrainian defenders dismissed 388 settlements and about 8. 5 thousand square meters. km only in Kharkiv region. On Tuesday, September 20, the Kremlin puppets Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasichnyk announced the dates of their holding, saying that unlawful voting should take place from September 23 to September 27.
Following them, the occupying "authorities" in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions declared the pseudo -referendums in the same days. The Gauleiter of the occupied part of Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, declared the creation of "volunteer battalions" so that the residents of Reigon would participate in the war against Ukraine. According to him, they “together with the warriors of the Russian army will help to complete the victorious“ special military operation ”as soon as possible.
Yevgeny Balytsky also announced the creation of such "battles" from Zaporizhzhya region. Also, DNR terrorist Denis Pushilin appealed to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to consider the entry of temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories into the Russian Federation. Russian propaganda media reported that the Kremlin Head and the Minister of Defense of the aggressor country Sergei Shoiga could contact the Russians on September 20.
They write that Putin's appeals may be related to the psverefriends that the Kremlin wants to spend in the temporarily captured territories of Ukraine in Kherson, Zaporizhia, Luhansk and Donetsk regions. In addition, on Tuesday the State Duma of the Russian Federation introduced into the Criminal Code the concept of "mobilization", "martial law", "armed conflict". In Russia, they will be punished for desertion, failure to see and voluntarily take prisoners.
The reaction of Ukraine, the head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine Andriy Yermak, stated that Russian blackmail "referendums" and "mobilization" is a "fear of defeat". “Ukraine will resolve the Russian question. The threat can only be eliminated by force, ”he wrote on Telegram.
Advisor to the head of the OP Mikhail Podolyak considers plans for illegal "referendums" asymmetric response of Russia to the Ukrainian counter -offensive, and Presidential President Sergei Nikiforov said in a comment to Liga. net that such actions of the occupiers would not affect the position of Vladimir Zelensky. According to him, psveregers will negate the slightest chance of diplomacy.
"Whatever casuism, Russia does not try to cover its military defeats, and no matter how it hinted at a total war, it will not change the position of the Armed Forces and the President as the Supreme Commander. All internationally recognized Ukrainian territories will be de -mentioned. But without referendums, there is still the slightest chance for a diplomatic decision. After the referendums - no, ”he said.