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Ukraine: Donbass referenda announced, Zelenskyy warned

2022-09-20T17:14:49.531Z


The Ukrainian military is advancing, and President Zelenskyy is issuing a clear warning to the occupying forces. They react to the Ukrainian offensive and announce referendums.


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This TikTok video is supposed to show Ukrainian soldiers advancing in the village of Bilohorivka near the border between Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

The recording cannot be checked independently.

Kiev's troops push further east.

The country wants to try to recapture the Donbass with a large-scale military offensive.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday evening that the Russian occupiers were panicking because the Ukrainian military was continuing to advance into occupied territory near Kharkiv.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine:

"We warned the Russian soldiers that they only have two choices: to flee our country or to surrender."

According to reports, the advance of the Ukrainian armed forces also caused destruction in the Luhansk region.

This is reported by pro-Russian separatists who control the town of Kadiivka.

In the city, which is called Stakhanov in Russian, at least three buildings were destroyed, including a school and a veterinary clinic.

Viktor Chinaryov, Headmaster:

“At 12:20 a.m., the Ukrainian side shelled the elementary school.

The gym was completely destroyed and the interior damaged.

It is impossible to continue classes here.

The entire inventory is destroyed.«

On Tuesday afternoon, the separatist parliaments of the self-proclaimed people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk announced referendums.

The occupation administration did the same in the regions of Cherson and Zaporizhia in southern Ukraine.

In just a few days, from September 23 to 27, the regions are to vote on joining Russia.

The Kremlin apparently wants to use this to secure its conquests.

In the words of the Russian Foreign Minister, it sounds like this:

Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister:

“Since the beginning of the special military operation and even before that, we have said that the peoples of the respective areas should decide their own fate.

The current situation confirms that they want to be masters of their own destiny.«

Ukraine counters this and speaks of a planned staging:

Serhiy Gaidai, Governor of Luhansk:

'That's all they can do now: hold referenda in a hurry, falsify them with some fabricated result.

They will do this in order to annex the occupied territories to the Russian Federation.

It's an attempt to set the boundaries of these areas where the front line is.

And it will give Russia the opportunity to declare the liberation of the territories as a direct attack by Ukraine on Russia.

Then a state of war will be declared and Russia can carry out forced mobilization.«

Ukraine and the West have already declared that they will not recognize such referendums because they are illegal.

Source: spiegel

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