Specially brought Russians to vote in sham elections in occupied Ukrainian territories

He said this on Espreso TV. 

"We received the lists of candidates who will participate in the sham elections in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Those lists will include approximately 62% of Russian citizens who have never lived in Ukraine before. And when we started monitoring the voter lists, we saw that there are about 50% of people who have never lived in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine," said the director of the Institute for Strategic Studies and Security.

Pavlo Lysianskyi explained that the voter lists include military personnel, ‘imported’ Russians, and migrants from Central Asia who were issued Russian passports.

"To summarize, I will tell you that in these sham elections, imported Russians who have never lived in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine will vote for candidates who are also Russian citizens and have never lived in these territories of Ukraine," the law enforcement officer emphasized.

He added that in those territories there is a percentage of collaborators from Ukraine, that is, Ukrainians who once supported the Party of Regions, the Communist Party of Ukraine, and the Opposition Platform for Life. But most local residents do not support these elections.

Pseudo-elections in the temporarily occupied territories

On August 31, the Russian forces began holding so-called elections to pseudo-local councils and "legislative bodies" in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

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

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.