Tuesday is the final day of voting in sham referendums on joining Russia, which is expected to announce it has annexed more of Ukraine by the end of the week.
Russian conscripts head off to war in Ukraine while others try to flee the draft
"I got the draft notice yesterday. A man came and gave it to me. Mum was unhappy but what could we do, we have to defend our country," one reservist, Roman Khodakov, told Reuters. "Despite the obvious senselessness of the war for Russia and the occupiers' loss of initiative, the command of the Russian military still drives them to their death,""Constant attempts of the Russian offensive in the Donetsk region will surely go down in the history of wars as one of the most cynical murders of one's own soldiers," he said, adding that such offensives and the Russian mobilization are an attempt to give commanders on the ground a constant stream...
Today is the only day that polling stations will open, with officials citing security reasons for the brief opening, with other votes collected by officials going door to door with portable ballot boxes.People cast their votes in controversial referendums in Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on Sept. 26, 2022. Voting runs from Friday to Tuesday in Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. Voters are asked to decide if they want these regions to become part of Russia.
"Following the so-called referendums, Moscow is expected to swiftly annex these regions, possibly by the end of this week," Teneo analysts said in a note Monday.
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