Ukrainians face being forced to fight their own people after Russia announced victory in rigged ballots to annex four regions.
Mariupol residents in Donetsk, one of the polled areas, were texted to go to the local “Military Commissariat,” raising fears they will be drafted.
The sinister move came as Russia once again threatened to use nuclear weapons if Kyiv continues its counter-offensive to liberate the regions.
During the sham five-day poll, which ended yesterday, residents were made to vote by gun-toting Russian invaders.
Last night Moscow’s state-owned news agency RIA said 96% in Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Luhansk had voted to be part of Russia. This will embolden the Kremlin to possibly use nuclear weapons to defend these “parts of Russia”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ’s ally, Dmitry Medvedev, of Russia’s Security Council, believes NATO will not directly interfere in the conflict, fearing a nuclear escalation.
He said: “The demagogues across the ocean and in Europe are not going to die in a nuclear apocalypse.”
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak asked where people should be evacuated to if there is Russian nuclear strike.
He said: “The use of nuclear weapons is a question of global security – this is no longer just about Ukraine.”
He added that Ukrainians who helped Russia organise the annexation referendums would face treason charges and at least five years in jail.
As Ukrainians and Russians fought on the eastern front, the chaos of Moscow’s “mobilisation” of 300,000 reservists for Putin’s war continued, with queues of cars at Georgia’s border trying to flee the Russia and the mass arrests of protesters.
Putin’s cronies think the recruitment – sending of students, alcoholics, the sick and elderly to the front – is so shambolic it must be “sabotage”.
TV propagandist Vladimir Solovyov said for the recruitment officers responsible: “I would propose to take them all out and shoot them by firing squad immediately and publicly.”
