VLADIMIR Putin claimed two massive parts of Ukraine are independent last night following sham referendums. Kherson and Zaporizhzhia are now on the verge of being swallowed up by Russia as part of M…
Footage emerged of voters being led to the ballot boxes at gunpoint by pro-Russian paramilitary groups, while election officials were seen appearing to count stacks of unmarked ballot papers as 'Yes' votes.Putin's cronies claimed 99 percent of ballots cast in Donetsk were in favour of joining Russia, 98 percent in Luhansk, 93 percent in Zaporizhzhia and 87 percent in Kherson.
The head of the upper house of the Russian parliament, the Duma, said the four occupied territories could become part of Russia as soon as October 4, three days before President Putin's 70th birthday. "This should happen within a week," Kremlin puppet Rodion Miroshnik from the so-called Luhansk People's Republic told Russian state media.
"The main thing has already happened - the referendum has taken place. Therefore, let's say, the locomotive has already started and it's unlikely to be stopped." "They can announce anything they want," Lyubomir Boyko, a villager in Russian-occupied Kherson said. "They went from house to house but nobody came out."
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