Residents of Zaporizhzhia occupied region completely ignored ‘elections’ - Ukrainian Resistance

This was reported by the National Resistance Centre.

"Although the enemy claimed a 68% turnout from an unclear number of the population, because Russia does not have such data, the real figures are many times lower," the statement said.

Despite the fact that the so-called voting lasted 11 days and Russian soldiers with machine guns went to civilian homes, the locals were not interested in the Kremlin's illegal "elections".

So now the occupation administration is checking state employees who did not attend the pseudo-elections. In particular, they are demanding to see the lists of those who were on sick leave or on holiday during the "elections", suspecting Ukrainians in the temporarily occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia region of sabotage.

The Resistance reminds that every collaborator who agreed to help Russian occupation authorities organise fake elections in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine will be held accountable. At the same time, the names of all traitors are known.

Information available regarding “election” in Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories

On 30 September 2022, Russian President Putin, based on the results of the so-called referendum in the TOT, signed "agreements" on the "accession" of the self-proclaimed LPR and DPR, as well as Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions to Russia.

On 2 October 2022, he submitted a bill to the State Duma on the "accession to the Russian Federation" of four regions of Ukraine.

On 5 October last year, Putin signed the "laws" on the so-called accession of four regions of Ukraine to Russia. He also appointed Denis Pushilin as "acting head of the DPR" and Leonid Pasichnyk as "acting head of the LPR". Volodymyr Saldo became the "governor" of Kherson region, and Yevhen Balytskyi was appointed the "governor" of Zaporizhzhia.

The "elections" in the TOT were scheduled for 10 September 2023, but preparations for them began much earlier.

On 4 September, the National Resistance Centre stated that Russian enemy in the temporarily occupied territories could not find a sufficient number of "public observers" among the locals for the so-called elections, so they invited them from Russia.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, said that among the candidates for representative pseudo-bodies in the temporarily occupied territories are Russian military personnel who took part in the invasion of Ukraine, where they killed and tortured people.

British intelligence has predicted the results of the "elections" in the TOT of Ukraine: the United Russia party is likely to win the most votes.  

On 7 September, Yuriy Sobolevsky, first deputy head of the Kherson regional council, said that the occupation authorities had already predicted a 15% turnout of the local population for the 'elections'.

On 8 September, Ukraine called on international partners to impose sanctions against the organisers of pseudo-elections in the temporarily occupied territories

On 8 September, the UN Security Council discussed Russia's attempts to organise local pseudo-elections in the occupied territories. Kyslytsia called for tough sanctions

On the temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia region, explosions were heard for two days in a row near the "polling stations.” Activists deliberately spoiled ballots to show their attitude to the Russian-appointed "authorities.”

In the temporarily occupied Henichesk, Kherson region, more people allegedly voted in Russia's illegal "elections" than live in the city