During the fictitious "

", the Russians even counted the "votes" of Ukrainians who left the occupied territory.

This is evidenced by a new SBU intercept, in which a serviceman of the Pskov division discussed this information with his wife.

He is currently surrounded by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Eastern Front.

His wife told him the latest news about the pseudo-referendum.

"It's all for nothing... they even offered to buy Lada-granta or something in the Kherson region so that they would vote for Russia," the woman said.

In turn, the occupier shared his impressions of his conversation with the local population of occupied Donetsk region.

"Locals here said that half of the people are not here - they have already left. And their votes are still counted," he said.

"But even knowing about the fakeness of these "referendums" held by the Russian Federation in the occupied territories of Ukraine, Russians are unlikely to doubt that they are "liberators". However, Ukrainian defenders see with their own eyes how they are met in de-occupied cities and villages. And this is the best motivation to liberate all our territories," the SBU emphasized.

It will be recalled that Mykhailo Podolyak, the adviser to the head of the President's Office, called the "ceremony of entry" of the captured Ukrainian territories into Russia, announced in the Russian Federation, a

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