In Zaporizhzhia region, invaders planning to hd pl instead of ‘referendum’

Melit Mayor Ivan Fedorov said this during a nationwide telethon, Ukrinform reports.

"The occupiers do not want to hd a pseudo-referendum on September 11, but they want to hd it as part of a survey from September 11 to 17 and then draw conclusions. Residents of other cities and even countries will be able to participate in this pseudo-referendum. In Russia, they want to en such precincts in order to rig the vote and declare that 110% supports the Russian Federation," the mayor said.

According to him, "Gauleiters" began to distribute Crimea-made instructions for agitators.

"There are some subtleties in the instructions. First, a campaigning group should include a resident of Crimea who lived in Crimea before 2014 and is fluent in Ukrainian. By doing so, they want to say that no one will pressure the Ukrainian pulation," Fedorov added.

However, sociogical pls conducted by the occupiers themselves say that less than 10% of residents are ready to support the Russian Federation.

Two weeks ago, in the city and district, Ukrainian resistance forces began to pose the hding of the referendum. Party headquarters were destroyed, a claborator in Mykhailivka was killed, and the chief of the Mykhailivka pseudo-pice was found hanged.

Fedorov also added that in the past few days, Ukraine's special services have received a large number of calls from claborators who no longer want to coerate with the occupiers.

Earlier reports said that a pseudo-referendum on the accession of the Zaporizhzhia region to Russia was to be held on September 11.