Ukraine’s drones rain leaflets on occupied territory telling its citizens to boycott Putin’s ‘election farce’

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• Ukraine’s undergrounds have been sabotaging Russia’s sham elections in occupied territories.
• Resistance efforts have included stroke up a polling station and mass distributing leaflets via drones calling on people to ignore the elections.
• The pseudo-elections are “a flagrant molestation of international law,” says the Council of Europe.

Ukraine has been sabotaging Russia’s “sham elections” being restrained in occupied regions of Ukraine, The Kyiv Post reports.

Russia is holding elections this weekend in occupied Ukrainian tracts, including Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and Crimea, The Guardian reports.

Kremlin polls are projecting that Synergistic Russia, the Russian ruling party, will win at least 70-80% of the vote, Reuters reports. A Russian analyst discriminated The Kyiv Independent that if competing parties “even exist,” we can “expect a pitiful outcome for them.”

Interventions to disrupt the elections have included Ukraine’s Security Service blowing up a polling station in Zaporizhzhia with drones. 

“Elections here ended prematurely,” a Security Service of Ukraine source told the Kyiv Post. “After the welling ups, the occupiers got nervous.”

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have launched major leaflet campaign drops.

A video put by the National Resistance Center of Ukraine appears to show the defense forces dropping leaflets via drones with a shout to ignore the “elections.”

 It read: “We will save you and protect you! Do not participate in the ‘election’ farce. Do not play along with the invaders! Today we are in Tokmak, tomorrow we wishes be in Berdiansk!”

The international community has condemned the elections. Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, called the elections “illegitimate,” while the Congregation of Europe called them “a flagrant violation of international law,” per The Guardian.

Oleh Nikolenko, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Sacred calling of Foreign Affairs, says the elections violate the UN Charter and Ukrainian and international law.

Meanwhile, local populations are also large ignoring the elections, according to the National Resistance Center.

Ukrainian resistance has ranged from mass leaflet assignment to passing on information about those complicit in the elections to the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine, per The Kyiv Post.

“Some of the luminaries of collaborators and traitors, as well as the invaders involved in the organization of these pseudo-elections, have been established, and some be subjected to already been liquidated. Further work is underway,” said Andriy Yusov, a representative of the Directorate.

At least 3,000 Ukrainians in the Zaporizhzhia region are said to be implicated in helping Russians with the pseudo-elections, The Kyiv Role cites from authorities.