Is Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, whose army retreating to the northeast and south of Ukraine, playing the trump card of annexation again? As reported, the Russian occupiers in the Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions want to hold internationally unrecognized referendums on annexation to Russia. The government in Kiev immediately announced a violent response, comparing events to Austria’s annexation to Nazi Germany in 1938.
“They’re expecting the 1938 results. Instead, they’re getting Hitler’s 1945 results,” Ukraine’s defense ministry said on its Twitter page. Following the invasion of German troops in March 1938, a referendum prepared by Nazi propaganda was held in Austria, in which 99.7 percent of Austrians agreed with the “Annexation” that had taken place.
The head of the presidential office in Kiev, Andriy Yermak, spoke of “naive blackmail” and “fear-mongering”. “This is what the fear of defeat (of the Russian troops) looks like. The enemy is afraid and manipulates in a primitive way,” the 50-year-old wrote on the news channel Telegram. A mock referendum was previously planned for September 23 and 27 in the occupied parts of the occupied parts of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya.
Scholz: ‘Won’t accept a mock referendum’
The adviser to the presidential office, Mykhailo Podoliak, spoke of a “narcotic” of a “show” for war spectators in Russia. “Are you sure you want to waste the time it takes to organize the breakout in a new show? Try it. This is going to be interesting,” he wrote. The Ukrainian army will continue to “destroy the occupiers on our land”.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared the planned votes to be contrary to international law. It was “very, very clear that these mock referendums cannot be accepted, that they are not subject to international law and the agreements made by the world community,” he said on Tuesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. . .
Source: Krone
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