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Ukrainians in newly liberated Balakliia describe how their occupiers had been plotting the sham referendum on Moscow’s annexation

Despite these propaganda measures, local support for annexation was extremely limited, residents said. “When our boys came we celebrated with champagne. I had hidden a bottle for that moment,” Natalia Sergeyevna recounted. “If the enemy had made us take part in a referendum I would have spoiled my ballot paper. No one here wants Russia.” What would happen now? “Our president is clever. We will take everything back,” she predicted.

Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk region’s military administration, said the poll was a farce. There was no confidentiality, with paperwork filled out in the open in homes and yards, he said. If residents refused to open their door, “commissioners” threatened to break in. The names of those who vote “no” are recorded in a notebook, he said, with the exercise used as a pretext to identify men of military age.

Currently Balakliia has no electricity or gas. Andriy, a Ukrainian soldier, went to the town’s train station on Saturday to recharge his phone from a public generator, available for four hours a day. He said he and his regiment would carrying on fighting, regardless of the “result” or whatever Putin did next. “Our task is to free our territory. We will gradually kick the Russians out. I’m certain of it,” he said.

Ukrainian citizens who do vote for annexation – for whatever reason – can expect a reckoning. One Balakliia pensioner, Lionia, said he was a diabetic. When his insulin ran out he asked the Russians for help. “When I collected the medicine they took my photo and put it in their swine paper. Then they left.

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