Scott Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 KYIV, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Russia launched referendums on Friday aimed at annexing four occupied regions of Ukraine, drawing condemnation from Kyiv and Western nations who dismissed the votes as a sham and pledged not to recognise their results. Ukrainian officials said people were banned from leaving some occupied areas until the four-day vote was over, armed groups were going into homes, and employees were threatened with the sack if they did not participate. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a nightly address that the votes would be "unequivocally condemned" by the world, along with the mobilisation Russia began this week, including in Crimea and other areas of Ukraine occupied by Russia. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-marches-farther-into-liberated-lands-separatist-calls-urgent-referendum-2022-09-19/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimmer Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Ukraine 'referendums': Soldiers go door-to-door for votes in polls Ukrainians have reported armed soldiers going door-to-door in occupied parts of the country to collect votes for self-styled "referendums" on joining Russia. "You have to answer verbally and the soldier marks the answer on the sheet and keeps it," one woman in Enerhodar told the BBC. In southern Kherson, Russian guardsmen stood with a ballot box in the middle of the city to collect people's votes. Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63013356 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owl sees all Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 IMO, we are at a pivotal point for world peace. If the voting regions - as I fully expect them to do - vote to go with Russia, the west will be wondering what's next. Will Russia announce that the these regions will now be Russian? What would the west do if, or when, this happens? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post placeholder Posted September 25, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 25, 2022 48 minutes ago, owl sees all said: IMO, we are at a pivotal point for world peace. If the voting regions - as I fully expect them to do - vote to go with Russia, the west will be wondering what's next. Will Russia announce that the these regions will now be Russian? What would the west do if, or when, this happens? Why are you even doubting that Russians will annex these regions? That's the point of the fake elections. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owl sees all Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 8 hours ago, placeholder said: Why are you even doubting that Russians will annex these regions? That's the point of the fake elections. IMO, the Russians will try to occupy the whole of the south. That will cut off access to the sea for Ukraine. The elections are fake according to western MSM. But are in fact happening. I think there was the prospect of a peace deal before Boris J (ex UK PM) went to Ukraine and put a deal to Zelensky over even more support. Things went pear-shaped regarding peace after that. As for Zelensky saying that the vote will be "unequivocally condemned by the world,", well, surely he means the western politicians and MSM. The 'west' is just 15% of the world in both area and population. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bkk Brian Posted September 26, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 26, 2022 Russia doesn't even fully control all those regions which are having this fake referendum. This is the only response that's needed: “Ukraine has every right to liberate its territories and will keep liberating them whatever Russia has to say.” World leaders denounce Russia over Ukraine invasion, referendum plans “The Russians can do whatever they want. It will not change anything,” Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Tuesday in response to reporters' questions at the United Nations where leaders were arriving for a General Assembly meeting likely to be dominated by the war in Ukraine. In a tweet, he added: “Ukraine has every right to liberate its territories and will keep liberating them whatever Russia has to say.” https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2022/09/21/World-leaders-denounce-Russia-over-Ukraine-invasion-referendum-plans 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post placeholder Posted September 26, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 26, 2022 1 hour ago, owl sees all said: IMO, the Russians will try to occupy the whole of the south. That will cut off access to the sea for Ukraine. The elections are fake according to western MSM. But are in fact happening. I think there was the prospect of a peace deal before Boris J (ex UK PM) went to Ukraine and put a deal to Zelensky over even more support. Things went pear-shaped regarding peace after that. As for Zelensky saying that the vote will be "unequivocally condemned by the world,", well, surely he means the western politicians and MSM. The 'west' is just 15% of the world in both area and population. i can see from your comments that you are watching the usual neofascist websites that support Putin. What makes you think Russia didn't try to occupy the whole south? What makes you think that they didn't fail in that endeavor? Negotiations that depend on Putin keeping his word are clearly suspect Whether or not the vote is condemned by the world, it's clear that having elections in disputed territory during wartime is obviously invalid. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post owl sees all Posted September 26, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 26, 2022 14 minutes ago, placeholder said: i can see from your comments that you are watching the usual neofascist websites that support Putin. What makes you think Russia didn't try to occupy the whole south? What makes you think that they didn't fail in that endeavor? Negotiations that depend on Putin keeping his word are clearly suspect Whether or not the vote is condemned by the world, it's clear that having elections in disputed territory during wartime is obviously invalid. You would be wrong in that assumption Placeholder. I watch and listen to independent sources. If one was to watch just the western MSM, one would get a very distorted view. Russia has tried to keep civilian casualties to an absolute minimum. The Ukraine forces on the other hand are - even as voting continues - are firing rocket indiscriminately into areas where there is no military presence. I have just listened to Ukrainian political commentator Dagny Taggart saying as much. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post placeholder Posted September 26, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 26, 2022 1 minute ago, owl sees all said: You would be wrong in that assumption Placeholder. I watch and listen to independent sources. If one was to watch just the western MSM, one would get a very distorted view. Russia has tried to keep civilian casualties to an absolute minimum. The Ukraine forces on the other hand are - even as voting continues - are firing rocket indiscriminately into areas where there is no military presence. I have just listened to Ukrainian political commentator Dagny Taggart saying as much. Please share with us these independent sources. Because they read exactly like the reports coming from rt.com. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bkk Brian Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 16 minutes ago, owl sees all said: You would be wrong in that assumption Placeholder. I watch and listen to independent sources. If one was to watch just the western MSM, one would get a very distorted view. Russia has tried to keep civilian casualties to an absolute minimum. The Ukraine forces on the other hand are - even as voting continues - are firing rocket indiscriminately into areas where there is no military presence. I have just listened to Ukrainian political commentator Dagny Taggart saying as much. Dagny Taggart ???? I take it you just finished listening to her on the George Galloway show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOLVs-Y5jYE Well I suppose she needs her twitter follower count up a little, only 4,000 following at the moment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owl sees all Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 20 minutes ago, placeholder said: Please share with us these independent sources. Because they read exactly like the reports coming from rt.com. Oh yes! RT. I had forgotten about them. Not watched for weeks. Thanks for the cue. I'll take a look right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
placeholder Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 13 minutes ago, owl sees all said: Oh yes! RT. I had forgotten about them. Not watched for weeks. Thanks for the cue. I'll take a look right now. Amazing how the falsehoods you post exactly match those offered by RT. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ballpoint Posted September 26, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 26, 2022 Thanks to Putin's Ukraine invasion, we are now in a position to see what it would have been like had the internet existed in the late 1930s. Social media ablaze with the likes of Ford, Mosley, Lindbergh, and other NAZI sympathisers and their followers. All quoting Lord Haw Haw broadcasts and Viscount Rothermere articles as valid sources of their material. No matter how low the cause, how tyrannical the man, there will always be a group along to defend it and him. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted September 27, 2022 Author Share Posted September 27, 2022 A post making unsubstantiated claims has been removed along with replies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwonitoy Posted September 27, 2022 Share Posted September 27, 2022 On 9/25/2022 at 8:50 PM, owl sees all said: You would be wrong in that assumption Placeholder. I watch and listen to independent sources. If one was to watch just the western MSM, one would get a very distorted view. Russia has tried to keep civilian casualties to an absolute minimum. The Ukraine forces on the other hand are - even as voting continues - are firing rocket indiscriminately into areas where there is no military presence. I have just listened to Ukrainian political commentator Dagny Taggart saying as much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre https://www.state.gov/war-crimes-by-russias-forces-in-ukraine/ How anyone can make your claim above is beyond belief. None so blind as those who will not see indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Northstar1 Posted September 27, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 27, 2022 On 9/25/2022 at 10:50 PM, owl sees all said: You would be wrong in that assumption Placeholder. I watch and listen to independent sources. If one was to watch just the western MSM, one would get a very distorted view. Russia has tried to keep civilian casualties to an absolute minimum. The Ukraine forces on the other hand are - even as voting continues - are firing rocket indiscriminately into areas where there is no military presence. I have just listened to Ukrainian political commentator Dagny Taggart saying as much. Lay off the crack pipe buddy! russia has tried to keep civilian casualties to a minimum? like the bucha massacres? leveling Mariupol to the ground? what an assenine comment! get an education before you make a comment’ 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bkk Brian Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Scam results from scam referendums starting to come in: Russia claims win in occupied Ukraine 'sham' referendums Moscow-installed officials in the regions are now claiming almost total support among those who took part in the disputed votes on joining Russia. News agencies run by the pro-Kremlin administrations in Donetsk and Luhansk are reporting that up to 99.23% of people voted in favour of joining Russia Refugees scattered across Russia were also able to vote at dozens of polling stations, including in Crimea, a southern Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63052207 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballpoint Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 2 hours ago, Bkk Brian said: Scam results from scam referendums starting to come in: Russia claims win in occupied Ukraine 'sham' referendums Moscow-installed officials in the regions are now claiming almost total support among those who took part in the disputed votes on joining Russia. News agencies run by the pro-Kremlin administrations in Donetsk and Luhansk are reporting that up to 99.23% of people voted in favour of joining Russia Refugees scattered across Russia were also able to vote at dozens of polling stations, including in Crimea, a southern Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63052207 Funerals for the 0.77% will be held next week. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bkk Brian Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 U.S. asks UN Security Council to condemn Russia for 'sham' referendums in Ukraine https://www.reuters.com/world/us-propose-resolution-un-security-council-condemning-russia-over-referenda-2022-09-27/ Not sure if this is confirmed yet? Kremlin decides not to rush annexation of occupied territories of Ukraine The Kremlin has decided not to rush the official "accession" of the occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia, and to postpone the closing of Russia’s borders. The latter decision was approved in light of the growing discontent with "mobilisation" among Russian citizens. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/09/28/7369512/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bkk Brian Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 According to this the announcement may still be on for the 30th Sept: The Kremlin could temporarily postpone announcing the annexation of Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory to better prepare the Russian information space and administrative organization, although September 30 remains the most likely date for some kind of annexation announcement. https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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