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Over 96% said to favour joining Russia in first vote results from occupied Ukraine regions

Following phoney referendums that Kyiv and the West have called a sham, the first partial voting results from four Ukrainian regions now und...

Chima Joseph Ugo
Chima Joseph Ugo - Editor-in-chief September 27, 2022
Updated September 27, 2022 at 3:22 PM
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Over 96% said to favour joining Russia in first vote results from occupied Ukraine regions
Following phoney referendums that Kyiv and the West have called a sham, the first partial voting results from four Ukrainian regions now under Russian occupation showed overwhelming majorities in favour of joining Russia.

The four regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson, which make up about 15% of Ukrainian territory, held hastily organised votes over the course of five days.

In what Ukraine and the West claimed was an illegal, coercive operation, Russian-installed officials moved ballot boxes from home to home in order to give Russia a legal justification to annex the four regions.

President Vladimir Putin could then portray any Ukrainian attempt to recapture them as an attack on Russia itself. He said last week he was willing to use nuclear weapons to defend the “territorial integrity” of Russia.

Ukraine has repeatedly warned that Russian annexation of additional territories would destroy any chance of peace talks, seven months after Moscow launched its invasion of the country.

RIA said the initial counts showed majorities ranging from 96.97% in the Kherson region, based on 14% of votes counted, to 98.19% in Zaporizhzhia, based on 18% of the count.

The majorities in the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics were just under 98%, with 14% and 13% respectively of votes tallied.

Russia says it is up to the people of the four regions to decide for themselves if they want to come under Moscow’s rule. In the run-up to the votes, it acted to “Russify” the occupied territories, including by issuing people with Russian passports and rewriting school curriculums.

Valentina Matviyenko, head of the upper house of the Russian parliament, said that if the referendum results were favourable, it could consider the incorporation of the four regions on Oct. 4.
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