The “governor” of the temporarily occupied part of Kherson region, volodymyr saldo, has stated that he is ready to hand over documents to the UN concerning russia\u2019s sham \u201creferendum\u201d held in September 2022, allegedly to prove the “legitimacy” of the occupation.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0fAccording to this kremlin puppet, the so-called \u201ccomplete package\u201d includes voter lists, video surveillance footage, and statements by alleged international observers claiming the referendum was \u201copen.\u201d saldo claims \u201cthe ball is now in the UN\u2019s court.\u201d<\/p>\n
These \u201cdocuments\u201d are legally worthless. However, saldo\u2019s statements are no coincidence \u2014 they are part of a new wave of russian information and psychological pressure aimed at forcing the world to accept its so-called \u201crealities.\u201d It is also a reaction to the creation of a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression and an attempt to reinforce support for the occupation by fabricating an illusion of \u201crecognition\u201d of the fake referendum results.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0fBut no manipulation can alter the truth: occupation is a crime, and international law is not on the side of the aggressor. In October 2022, the UN General Assembly condemned the sham referendums and refused to recognize any changes in the status of Ukrainian territories. Dozens of countries have likewise stated unequivocally that the results of these \u201creferendums\u201d carry no legal force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The “governor” of the temporarily occupied part of Kherson region, volodymyr saldo, has stated that he is ready to hand over documents to the UN concerning russia\u2019s sham \u201creferendum\u201d held in September 2022, allegedly to prove the “legitimacy” of the occupation. \u25ab\ufe0fAccording to this kremlin puppet, the so-called \u201ccomplete package\u201d includes voter lists, video surveillance…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":934,"footnotes":""},"categories":[934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}