CLICK EXCLUSIVE⟩ “We fear what lies ahead.” The fictitious referendum circus in Kherson

TVNET’s online magazine KLIK offers an exclusive insight into life in Kherson after the Russian occupation. This is the third part of the publication, which was made by communicating with a Kherson woman who lives underground, whose name we must not reveal.

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Thus, about 10 polling stations are considered open in the city, almost all located in schools. On the first day they opened at eight in the morning and patriotic Soviet songs began to play from the loudspeakers, but by ten in the morning they had already closed. The first day of the “referendum” showed that people will not come to the elections, so they have changed tactics. Now the urns are located in the main streets of the city. One of the central streets of the city is the pedestrian street named after Suvorov. There is a woman sitting at the table with the urn. Two machine gunners nearby. If someone wants to vote, he sits next to a woman who writes her passport details in a book, hands him a ballot paper, and it is filled out right in front of her. Then the card is thrown into a plastic bin. No secret ballot, no stamps. The urn is covered with paper from the inside so that you cannot see how many cards have been thrown in there.

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