Don’t worry, North Korea will recognize the legitimacy of this Stalinist referendum. Meanwhile thousands of Russian speakers from the Donbas are busy killing Russian invaders and fighting to free their homeland from Putin’s criminal land grab.
As long as these newly liberated sectors aren’t attacked by NATO forces, I see no problem for you to continue cheerleading for Zelenskyy.
One report I read said 3% of population of Zaporizhzhia Oblast voted. This is Stalinist banditry in the finest Russian tradition.
Greeting Ukrainian defenders in a liberated village: “Why did it take you so long?”
1- https://twitter.com/i/status/1577380030707007488
2- https://twitter.com/i/status/1577361408039260160
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The main thing for the fourth of October (223rd day of the war)
▫️ The APU is crowding the Russian army. In a week, Ukraine has established control over four thousand square kilometers in the Kharkiv, Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson regions.
Only today Lyubimovka, Khreshchenovka, Zolotaya Balka, Belyaevka, Ukrainka, Malaya and Bolshaya Alexandrovka and Davydov Ford have been liberated in the Kherson region. The Russian army retreated 30 kilometers to the south along the bank of the Dnieper.
There is not much information about Dudchans yet. Judging by the Russian maps, the front line begins right behind him. Judging by the observations, the Russians could have been thrown even further south.
Russian Defense Minister Shoigu says that 200 thousand Russians have been mobilized. The Minister of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan says that 200 thousand Russians have entered. The magic of numbers.
A little later, Forbes sources in the highest Russian authorities said that from 700 thousand to a million Russians had left the country since the beginning of the mobilization. This is quite a lot, and if people from the presidential administration share this number, they do it for a reason, but perhaps hinting at future changes in the degree of permeability of the border to the outside.
The defender of Azovstal, Mikhail Dianov, who returned to Ukraine, told about the tortures in Russian captivity: they were beaten with butts and batons, starved, used electricity, did not provide medical care.
Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree recognizing everything adopted in Russia regarding the territories of Ukraine in recent days as null and void. This is a technical document that eliminates possible legal conflicts, but the name sounds nice.
For example, today’s vote in the Federation Council on annexation is also recognized by the Ukrainian authorities as null and void.