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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