Treason for 10,000 rubles: how much Russian authorities pay for pseudo-elections in occupied Zaporizhzhia region?

She shared the statement on the Espreso TV channel.

"The people who voluntarily went there, who work in election commissions, are definitely collaborators and traitors. We can talk about their guilt as we see how the so-called electoral process is carried out. These people are walking around with ballot boxes, along with armed Russian machine gunners. They go from apartment to apartment, from building to building, and force people to vote for something at gunpoint," Sysoyeva said.

The traitors are also among the lists of people who have called themselves candidates, their names are already known.

"In addition to those who decided to build a career in the occupation authorities, there are also war criminals. We are informed from the occupied territories that they recognize people who lived in those territories but left in 2014 to fight for Russia. And in fact, these are war criminals, because they killed Ukrainian soldiers, Ukrainian people, and now they have declared themselves candidates," the MP said.

On September 6, the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, told Radio Liberty that about 3,000 people were helping Russian occupiers prepare for the "elections" in Zaporizhzhia. Most of the so-called "agitators, observers and participants in the electoral process" were brought from the continental part of Russia. The local population refused to take part in this.

"If we analyze all those who are local, these are people, many of whom we did not know before the full occupation of our city, or these are people who were under criminal prosecution by our Ukrainian law enforcement agencies until 24 February 2022," Fedorov concluded.

• On September 7, in Zaporizhzhia, law enforcement officers detained a resident who called on social media to help the occupying Russian forces and raise the Russian flag on the historic island of Khortytsia.

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

• Invading forces in the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories couldn't find a sufficient number of public observers among the locals for the so-called elections, so they brought them from Russia.

• Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov told about the situation in the Russian army in the temporarily occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia region.