Russia launches door-to-door operation in occupied Kherson region amid "elections"

He shared this information on Espreso TV.

"In the eastern part of the Kherson region, the primary concern for residents right now is how to avoid taking part in what can only be described as an absurd theater known as the "elections." Collaborators, accompanied by armed individuals, are currently visiting households and coercing people into participating in this spectacle," stated the first deputy chairman of the Kherson Regional Council.

Yuriy Sobolevskyi emphasized that the occupying authorities have already succeeded in engaging 15% of the population, without specifying the total number of eligible voters. He also noted that the source of the voter lists remains undisclosed.

What's known about fake elections in Russian-held territories 

On August 31, Russian forces started organizing what they call "elections" for local councils and "legislative bodies" in parts of Ukraine that they've occupied temporarily.

On August 29, Ukrainian partisans in the temporarily occupied Nova Kakhovka destroyed the election regional headquarters of United Russia.

Also, the Security Service of Ukraine targeted collaborators who were going to hold sham elections in the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia region with drones. 

In addition, the Security Service has identified more than 3,500 collaborators and their Russian "curators" involved in the organization of illegal voting in the temporarily occupied territories of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

European Commission spokesperson Peter Stano issued a statement condemning Russia's "elections" in the occupied territories of Ukraine.

Using UAVs, the Defense Forces distributed leaflets over the temporarily occupied territories calling for ignoring the Russian sham elections, which are to officially begin on September 8.

On September 4, the National Resistance Center stated that Russian-installed authorities 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.

Dmytro Lubinets, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, revealed that among the candidates for these fake representative bodies in the occupied areas, there are Russian soldiers who took part in Ukraine's invasion, where they killed and tortured people.

British intelligence predicted that the United Russia party is likely to get the most votes in these "elections."