Referendum in the Donbass, the Russians forced the Ukrainians to enlist during the vote

ODESSA – The cards of the four referendum farcessometimes there were two. The first was to vote for the annexation of one’s land to the Russian Federation. “They didn’t point their guns at you, they didn’t need them. The presence of those two soldiers with machine guns behind the scrutineers was enough to put the x where they wanted ”, says Svitlana, a teacher from Melitopol.