KYIV. UkraineGate . 24 . September . 2022 | Political News.
Ukrainians from the occupied territories are increasingly asking how to avoid participation in pseudo-referendums and not to join the enemy army. The Ministry of Reintegration published a number of recommendations .
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The number of calls to the hotline of the Ministry of Reintegration has increased from residents of temporarily occupied territories asking how to avoid participation in pseudo-referendums and avoid joining the enemy army.
“One of these came from the wife of a rescuer from Energodar. She said that her husband and his colleagues are patriots and are not going to cooperate with the invaders in any way. They stay in the city until the end, because the specifics of their service require it. On the other hand, the occupiers forbade leaving the city. People don’t know what to do,” the message reads.
The Ministry of Reintegration reminded that any decision in which the results of pseudo-referendums will be recorded is null and void. And also gave a number of tips:
– Try not to take part in them and by all available means create obstacles in its implementation. Do not help the Russians to create even the slightest illusion of legitimacy of such “measures”. Remember that active participation in them will be criminally punished.
– All citizens of Ukraine who do not take part in hostilities and are on the TOT are under the protection of the Fourth Geneva Convention on the Protection of the Civilian Population in Time of War of August 12, 1949. It provides that the occupying power has no right to compel protected persons to serve in its armed or auxiliary forces.
– The occupiers are prohibited from demanding any change in the personnel or structure of medical organizations and civil protection institutions, which may negatively affect their humanitarian activities.
– However, Russia neglects its obligations under international humanitarian law, so the only way to protect itself is to leave the temporarily occupied territories.
You can report about yourself and the violation of your rights by calling:
SBU hotline: 0 800 501 482 (information is confidential);
Hotline of the National Police of Ukraine: 0 800 50 0202.
Addition
In the so-called “DNR” and “LNR” in the occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the dates of the so-called “referendum” on joining the Russian Federation have been set for September 23-27.
At the same time, Meduza, citing two sources close to the administration of the President of the Russian Federation, writes that “referendums” are also planned for September 23-27 in the occupied territories of Ukraine – in the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions.
At the same time, today in Melitopol in the Zaporizhia region temporarily occupied by the occupiers, according to rosZMI, a “congress of residents of the Zaporizhia region” regarding the holding of a “referendum” on joining Russia was dispersed.
Source: Ukrgate
