"Polls on apartments" under the muzzles of automatic machines. Collaborators began to implement the Russian Federation Plan on the "referendum" in the Zaporozhye region: what is known

It was still most likely to be considered September 11 - the day when a number of elections of different levels will be held in the regions of Russia (the so -called "single voting day"). NV tells that it is known about the probable format, terms and goals of the Russian Federation in the Zaporozhye region, which Russia has only partially captured.

On August 8, the former people's deputy and collaborator Yevhen Balytsky, whom the occupying power calls the "governor of Zaporizhzhya region", declared his intention to hold an illegitimate "referendum" in the territories of the region captured by Russia. For this purpose, in the Russian troops of Melitopol, the invaders held a forum with Russia, unreasonably claiming that they allegedly gathered "more than 700 representatives from all over the region.

" During this event, another collaborator, propagandist Volodymyr Rogov (in Ukraine against him criminal case was initiated, sanctions were applied in the EU) read the "appeal" The main value of the opinion of each inhabitant of our region, we declare the intention to hold a referendum on the entry of the Zaporizhzhya region into the Russian Federation as a full entity. We are one people and we will be together.

" Based on this pseudocument, which has no legal force, the self -proclaimed "Governor" Balytsky signed a document, which, judging from the video of RIA Novosti, called "the order of the CEC of Zaporizhzhia region on the beginning and preparation of the referendum on reunification" of the region with Russia. Balytsky did not name the specific date of such an attempt to annex the Ukrainian territory.

However, Rogov in a comment to Russian propagandists stated that preparation for the "referendum" was already underway. “Its holding is scheduled for September. The exact date of the "referendum" is determined and in the near future it will be publicly announced, ” - quotes the collaborator's Russian State Agency of RIA Novosti.

We spent the collection of collaborators with a similar name with Russia at the end of July and in the captured territories of the Kherson region, but we did not make specific statements about the "referendum", DW reminds. On August 6, a few days before such statements of Russian collaborators, the legitimate mayor of Ukrainian Melitopol Ivan Fedorov shared his known information about how Russia intends to hold such a "referendum" in the Zaporozhye region.

“They [occupiers] want to hold a" referendum "for seven days, with the help of" elders in houses "who will walk around apartments and interview residents, but accompanied by automatic and police officers or FSB. They do this to draw the figure in seven days that they want to see their political puppets, ”Fedorov said. At the same time, he said that preliminary attempts to test this method brought the invaders disappointing results.

According to Fedorov, the first results of the bypass of apartments in Melitopol demonstrated that the idea of ​​joining the Russian Federation on the background of a full -scale war, resolved by Russia, support no more After the invasion).

Commenting on such plans of the occupiers, experts of the Institute of War Study in their summary on August 7 suggested that the Russian occupation "power" was trying to accelerate the preparation for the pseudo -referendum in the occupied territories The ways of conducting such a "referendum" (such as "Voting at Home" in Zaporizhzhia region) are aimed at several goals: according to the jellyfish from two close to the Kremlin interlocutors, in mid -July the occupiers held in the captured territories The results of which "accession" to Russia were only "about 30%" of locals (given that the "survey" was conducted by invaders, and it is impossible to check the accuracy of its methodology or results).

"Of course, there is no such support for a real referendum," one of the interlocutors of Medusa, acquaintances with the results of the poll, recognized. The representative of the GUR Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Vadim Skibitsky in late July stated that Ukrainian intelligence "sees preparatory measures [to pseudo -referendums] conducted by the occupiers. " “In the temporarily occupied territories in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions, the Kremlin Political Party began to actively operate.

We see that measures are being taken to clarify the so -called "voter lists". In addition, they opened the polling stations for the election, - Skibitsky said, adding that the process of distributing Russian passports began in the occupied territories. On August 7, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated that if Russia still decides to hold pseudo -referendums in the occupied territories of Ukraine, further negotiations of Kyiv and Moscow will be impossible.

“The position of our country remains as it was before: we will not give anything. And if the occupiers go through these pseudo-referendums, then they will close any opportunity for negotiations with Ukraine and the free world, which will definitely be needed at a certain point in the Russian side, ”the President of Ukraine said. Zelensky also warned that everyone who will help the Russians "somehow realize this intention" will be responsible to Ukraine.

Earlier it was reported that the data on Zaporozhye collaborators who help Russian invaders prepare a pseudo -referendum in Melitopol, was transferred to the SBU. The Kremlin has already commented on this warning of Zelensky, trying to disappear from the fact that Moscow is preparing a new attempt to annex the Ukrainian territories.

Commenting on the words of Zelensky about the decision to abandon any dialogue from the Russian Federation in this case, the speaker of the head of the Kremlin regime Dmitry Peskov lied that some "residents of the region" were engaged in the organization of pseudo-referendums. "We do not have a" referendum ". Here, apparently, it is necessary to understand who Zelensky is addressing this statement, ” - quotes Peskova Russian propaganda.

Earlier, the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk recalled that the pseudo -referendum held by Russia will not have a legitimate status in which format it would not be held. “Any will in the territory of Ukraine can be carried out only within the limits and those provided by the Law of Ukraine.

Otherwise, the legitimacy of this method will be less than a survey of condominium residents (about the combination of co -owners of an apartment building) about choosing the color of paint for bulls, ”Stefanchuk wrote. At the same time, the Deputy Head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine Igor Zhovkva suggested that Russia will not be able to hold so -called "referendums" in the temporarily occupied territories of Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions.