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applegrove

(118,643 posts)
Sat May 10, 2014, 11:08 PM May 2014

Pro-Russian Men Found With 100,000 "Yes" Ballots To Break Away From Ukraine

Pro-Russian Men Found With 100,000 "Yes" Ballots To Break Away From Ukraine

by Paul Szoldra at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/yes-ballots-ukraine-2014-5

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Ukrainian military forces stopped and seized a vehicle carrying three armed men transporting guns, ammunition, and an estimated 100,000 ballots for a May 11 referendum already marked "yes" for the eastern city of Donetsk to break away and form an independent state, Kyiv Post reports.

The men — which Ukrainian media have described as "armed terrorists" — were found with ballots in the trunk of their car on the outskirts of the city, a police source told the Ukraine Observer.

Many cities in eastern Ukraine have been under siege for about a month, including Donetsk, where the city's main government building and a number of schools have been seized by pro-Russian separatists believed to be backed by Moscow.

The new reports of fraudulent ballots brings to mind a similar incident in Crimea, the region recently annexed to Russia following a March 16 vote. A senior White House official told Reuters there was "concrete evidence" some of those ballots arrived to Crimean cities pre-marked.



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Pro-Russian Men Found With 100,000 "Yes" Ballots To Break Away From Ukraine (Original Post) applegrove May 2014 OP
nothing to see here, move along Duckhunter935 May 2014 #1
The Crimean vote was faked as well. Jenoch May 2014 #2
 

Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)
1. nothing to see here, move along
Sun May 11, 2014, 12:01 AM
May 2014

must be the false flag operation of the CIA, right sector, Coup government.

 

Jenoch

(7,720 posts)
2. The Crimean vote was faked as well.
Sun May 11, 2014, 04:18 PM
May 2014

The actual voter turnout was about 30% and only 1/2 of them voted in favor of aligning with Russia. That means that only 15% of the people in Crimea actually voted in favor of Russia taking over.

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