Kherson Regional Council confident that Russians will not be able to hold "referendum"
OLENA ROSHCHINA – MONDAY, 29 AUGUST 2022, 19:07
The Russian occupying forces will not be able to hold a staged referendum in the near future, which they previously planned for 11 September [the single voting day in Russia].
Source: Oleksandr Samoilenko, Head of the Kherson Regional Council, in a comment for the Radio Liberty project Novyny Pryazovia (News of Pryazovya)
Quote from Samoilenko: "Indeed, there is information that a unified ‘referendum’ is planned [to be held along] with [local] elections taking place there in Russia; these are scheduled for 11 September. But, analysing the events that are taking place today, at least in Kherson Oblast and in the city of Kherson, I can tell with almost 100% certainty that there will be no ‘referendum’ now".
Details: The head of the regional council is convinced that the occupying forces are not ready to hold an illegal "referendum".
"The [requisite electoral] commission, to be composed of seven people, has not even been formed yet, and even today they can’t gather these seven people. I am 100% sure that no referendums will be held on the dates that were chosen. And there, again, I am sure that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will make adjustments to the plans of the occupiers," added Samoilenko.
Previously:
- On 29 August, Kakhovka operational group reported that Ukrainian defenders destroyed nearly every large bridge near Kherson and broke through the first line of Russian defences in Kherson Oblast.
Background:
- On 7 August, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine said that if Russia held its so-called referendums in the occupied territories of southern Ukraine, doing so would foreclose the possibility of future negotiations with Ukraine.
- On 8 August, Dmitriy Peskov, press secretary for the Russian President, falsely claimed that Russian occupation authorities are not involved in organising the so-called "referendums" in the occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts of Ukraine, and that the referendums are allegedly organised "by the local residents" - although there were no designs to hold such "referendums" before the Russian Federation’s invasion.
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