{"id":1628825,"date":"2022-08-31T21:03:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T01:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628825"},"modified":"2022-08-31T21:04:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T01:04:28","slug":"russia-orchestrates-referendum-to-annex-occupied-portions-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-orchestrates-referendum-to-annex-occupied-portions-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Orchestrates Referendum To Annex Occupied Portions Of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-orchestrates-referendum-to-annex-occupied-portions-of-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628825&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/russia\">Russia<\/a> is gearing up to hold \u201climited\u201d annexation referendums next month in various territories captured from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>State media outlets have confirmed that Russian occupied territories from the Donbas region in the east to southern oblasts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, to the outskirts of Kharkiv in the Northeast, will hold elections on potential annexation into the Russian Federation. The vote would likely be similar to the 2014 referendum in Crimea, where returning to the control of Kyiv was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/15\/world\/europe\/crimea-vote-does-not-offer-choice-of-status-quo.html\">not an option<\/a> on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe referendum will, of course, be held on our territory,\u201d Mayor Alexander Saulenko of Berlansk, a coastal city in Zaporizhzhia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/russia-hold-limited-ukraine-annexation-vote-including-region-zaporizhzhia-nuclear\">told<\/a> the Russian state-owned TASS. \u201cWe are preparing for this referendum, it is planned for September, but I can\u2019t say the exact date yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia is attempting to solidify control of hard-won territory as their invasion of Ukraine has continued to stall in recent months. The referendum gives their de facto annexation of Ukrainian territory a thin veneer of legality, although international observers were quick to condemn the legitimacy of any such vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince they obviously are having trouble achieving geographic gains inside Ukraine, they are trying to gain that through false political means,\u201d White House national security spokesman John Kirby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/world\/russia-may-announce-sham-referenda-this-week-to-formalize-control-of-occupied-territories-in-ukraine-509929\">said<\/a> last week. \u201cThe Russian officials themselves know that what they\u2019re doing will lack legitimacy, and it will not reflect the will of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a part of Russia\u2019s playbook to attack the sovereignty, identity, and history of Ukraine,\u201d State Department Deputy Spokesperson Verdant Patel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/15\/world\/europe\/crimea-vote-does-not-offer-choice-of-status-quo.html\">said<\/a>. \u201cWe want to be clear: Any claim by the Kremlin that the Ukrainian people somehow want to join Russia is a lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The outcome of the vote is almost certain, and the process is basically a formality.<\/p>\n<p>Andrei Turchak, a senior Russian lawmaker, reportedly said last week, \u201cThese territories are Russian regions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is gearing up to hold \u201climited\u201d annexation referendums next month in various territories captured from Ukraine. State media outlets have confirmed that Russian occupied territories from the Donbas region in the east to southern oblasts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, to the outskirts of Kharkiv in the Northeast, will hold elections on potential annexation into &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1628827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1628827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}