Zelenskyy: Russian occupiers are gathering Ukrainian citizens’ personal data to falsify “referendums”
Alyona Mazurenko – Thursday, 21 April 2022, 23:57
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on the people of Ukraine who find themselves under Russian occupation not to disclose their personal information, as it is being gathered to falsify "referendums."
Source: Zelenskyy’s video address
According to Zelenskyy: "I am urging the citizens of Ukraine’s southern regions – the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions – to be very careful about what information you share with the invaders.
If they ask you to fill out some questionnaires, to share your passport data, then know that this is not to help you. This is not just a census of people who live in a certain area, as they claim. And it is not so that they can give you humanitarian aid.
This is so that they can falsify a so-called "referendum" on your land, if an order from Moscow instructs them to actually stage such a performance.
I want to say right away: there will be no "Kherson People’s Republic." If someone wants to carry out a new annexation, it can only lead to powerful new sanctions against Russia. You [i.e., the Russian government] will make your country as poor as Russia was in the aftermath of the Civil War in 1917. So, better to seek peace now."
