Rashists are in a hurry to hold a referendum on the annexation of the temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk region.
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This was announced on July 18 in Telegram by the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
According to him, in the occupied part of the Lugansk region, agitation for joining Russia has begun. Previously, the “referendum” was planned to be held on September 11th. However, the threat of a Ukrainian counter-offensive and the fear of Western long-range artillery forces the Russians to rush.
The occupiers created a “headquarters” for the preparation of pseudo-elections and began distributing propaganda newspapers in the captured cities. However, according to Gaidai, the citizens remaining under occupation are not waiting for joining the Russian measure, but for Ukrainian de-occupation.
A small part of the Luhansk region is holding out. Western long-range artillery disrupted the plans of the Rashists to capture two eastern regions.
First, the orcs are experiencing huge logistical problems due to the destruction of warehouses from BC. Secondly, the Russians understand that the Ukrainian territories do not give in to them, they are afraid of a counteroffensive, therefore they will not be able to quickly annex the captured Donbass to Russia in order to announce a general mobilization, so they decided not to wait – and are already campaigning in the occupied part of the Lugansk region to join to Russia. decide, – wrote Gaidai.
Meanwhile, the invaders appointed Anton Koltsov as the “chairman” of the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region. Prior to that, he was the vice-governor of the Vologda region of Russia.
The so-called “Minister for Youth Policy” of the Zaporozhye region was made Anton Titsky. He was an adviser to the head of the federal agency “Rosmolodezh”.
Earlier, Rakurs reported that the rashists were trying to advance from the captured Lisichansk towards Bakhmut, mobilized men from the recently occupied cities went into battle.
Source: Racurs
