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Armed soldiers are going door-to-door in Ukraine to collect votes and threatening Ukrainians with the murder of their families if they fail to participate in so-called referendums that would see Russia annex occupied parts of the country, according to The Telegraph.
Voting in the Kremlin-orchestrated polls, which were announced earlier this week, has begun in the four occupied Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson.
The « referendums » are illegal under Ukrainian and international law, per NPR. President Joe Biden on Friday described them as a « sham » and a « false pretext » to try to annex parts of Ukraine by force,
The voting is expected to end on Tuesday, but the results are likely predetermined.
