Armed Russian soldiers accompany staged-referendum 'commissions', threaten those who refuse to participate

This was reported by the head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, Serhii Haidai.

"A quick staged-referendum in yards and apartments under the watchful eye of soldiers with weapons," Haidai commented on the 'elections' in the temporarily Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine.

Local residents report that the so-called commissions are accompanied by armed Russian soldiers.

If the residents do not open the door, the Russian invaders threaten to kill them. And when a person ticks NO in the 'bulletin', it is recorded in a separate notebook.

"The occupiers will calculate and draw any result that is favorable to them. Moreover, in the morning the leader of the so-called "LPR" announced plans to appeal to the Russian President so that he would consider the issue of the 'republic's' joining Russia at the legislative level. That is, the opinion of the population is of no importance," Haidai added.