ah ah ah, the 2nd day of the day is on the way all see, continue with the coverage of the ongoing referendums. im done by rosier and carols on on the weather to join russia with international observers monitoring the event . just wanted to see, this is a historic day for don boss. i've been covering this issue since 2014. therefore, i know very well what the feelings of the people are here. i think the live pain and torture, 35 minute personnel from russia and the dumb republics have come back home off the nightmare in cream captivity. you're going to beat me with the chair kicked

me and hit me with the mom. they beat me because of a broken chair. they said your cattle, you broke our chair and they started hitting me on the head again. did you have me with all sorts of needles in my ear, my nose, just to mark me a new link by a french newspaper. the president puts in words about the west lock in rough and fertilizer. export this right to the d. a reach. if stumble with from moscow to wherever you are in the world, this is our t international. i'm rather mommy. and here are the top stories on this our the 2nd day of those, the on whether to join russia has just started. we bring you special coverage over the historic referendum from don boss and the 2 other regions

ah, who's the referendums are being held in the darkness and the dust people's republics and the kaz on as that the rose, yet regions back in 2014 done asked our guys were voted to declare themselves independent after they refused to recognize the 2 in cave, in the areas that are international observers that are monitoring the votes in process. here's one from italy who gave his impressions at the end of the 1st day.

was russia society? this is a historic day for don boss. i've been covering this issue since 2014. therefore, i know very well what the feelings of the people are here and how many people want to return to russia. today i had the opportunity to visit the polling stations. i was surprised how everything was in order. i was surprised by the authorities of the town at sc republic, protect and care about security. i saw how mobile groups went from house to house. i did not see any legal violations complete freedom. i walked took pictures. no one forbade me from anything. i have already sent my materials to the italian media. i have not seen any coercion of the people earlier. my colleague, rachel blevins, spoke with our correspondence in the dumbass eager is daniel the in the new dance republic and roman casa, in the dennis republic on how the verge is going well,

the 1st day of the referendum turned out to be a pretty successful, according to the election committee as a nearly a quarter of the population of the nest people's republic turns out to vote to join a russia in this referendum. now, according to international observers, enter the election committee. there were no violations recorded during this vote. and the in general now i joined us, one of the mobile groups on friday walked around the wood, them from house to house. and generally it was the quite a festive mood among those people who were a voting. they were telling me that finally this they had said it arrived and some will said that we wished as they would have come a sooner. nevertheless, we voted one of this feast that we owe walked on. they were at least 80 people who cast their ballots. and all of them said yes, said to the referendum, the reason i know that because they are quite open about their choice. now also,

according to local officials, a call centers that were established for this referendum. we received a lot of calls where people were asking how, when the mobile groups for the right to their home so that they could vote. now once again, the referendum will be held over 5 days. the 1st day has already passed. weird is seconds a now. so a 3 more days, so we'll have a voting done with the mobile groups. and on the last day, on the 27th of september, people will turn out to polling stations for the final day of the referendum. meanwhile, this is all done while ukrainian nationalists continue shelling the city of the nest. continue terrorizing local residence, trying to disrupt the referendum francis stop that them from a voting nevertheless. a voting continues on on a friday, at least at $200.00 various caliber shells has landed in the city of done as calmly

as current. so actually those were of various calibers including of those that are supplied by nato countries. now air defense say here in the center of the nest was operating all day as well. we would hear our shots every 5 minutes or so. so that means a green in ashley's were once again trying to target the sensor of the city. unfortunately, another day has gone by and not without some casualties. a one man was killed on the outskirts of the nest. kanza, 2 more civilian women were wounded. let's bring in our she's eager as you are now, was in august for public for us. now. igor, what is the 2nd day looking like there so far this? well, this region, this country, it trails just behind its neighbor, the, the nets, people's republic with over 20 percent of all the population that have decided to cast their ballots during the 1st day,

according to the official information that is just short of 300000 people and of course, it sounds like a, like a large number because bull, because it is. but one thing to understand about the vote here is that there are no a polling stations in their traditional sensor over the word. so you can't come to a school or any other place or, well, that is stationary and well cast your vote. instead the authorities here the hey, they have opted for the mobile polling booths. that looked like a well regular bus that arrives at a designated location as a designated time and all locals, all our local citizens, they have the opportunity to well have their say and that was done over safety concerns. now my colleague, roman cosser has already talked about all sorts of calibers of shelves that landed in the nets here in la guns. can the capital of deal against people's republic yesterday. it was quite quiet and are well everyone, they sorta had

a sigh of relief at the end of the day, but own plenty of neighboring little towns and villages. they were also shelled by the key forces that are trying to well basically they are trying to disrupt the referendum to make it not happen, to frighten people into, to scare them into obedience and into not voting. and again, on this region, it has, while it has a walked a long walker of 8 years towards to day towards this a vote, we've talked to some of the locals and many of them, many of them were old enough to vote back in 2014. when the key of forces, when cave, basically while it declared war on its own people and started shelling, started a fighting with its or again, with its own people with the citizens here when they had to mobilize themselves. and that ensued a, what is happening today that ensued the war that we're witnessing right now. this

is what, this is what caused it. and so many of them they had hoped that back in 2014, that was it. that was the decisive moment. that was the stand they had to make to join russia or at least break away from ukraine after well after the who are in t of but that didn't happen. many of them that were unhappy, many of them were visit, visibly disturbed by this turn of events. but all of them were relieved and they were saying they were hopeful that this vote this 5 day vote will finally bring what are the vote back in 2014 didn't to. so they put a lot of hope to the pro pin a lot of hope to the process here. and so during the 5 day period, of course, the 5th day will be when the polling booths open here. this is what they're hoping for. this is a, this is basically what they're saying, that they will finally be able to join rush and all sorts of opportunities that they expect that they will come to their, to their doorsteps. a voting saw

a heavy military and police presence that to insure security and sleep for explosives before residents arrived back. come as there have been a number of terror attacks on local official for the referendum dislike the potential threats. people continue to cause pilots. yes, the shall is the revolution i believe that only with russia will be able to revive our region, raise the economy, medicine education, revise the industries that her son region was famous for in soviet times and give a new impetus to our economy. i cast my vote for joining russia, montagnier from omit finally, we are together finally, well is home with the motors excellence, high voltage for russia, from my home for my motherland. actually young session. i want to come back home. i just want to come back home to the bulls on his, on his always been

a russian city. they say that for a person, the native language is the one in which his mother read fairy tale for him in childhood. they read to me in russia, there is still of course, a lot of fear, a lot of apprehension. there has been a campaign of terror conducted by ukrainian nations suddenly ukrainian government against people here to dissuade them from joining or for voting in this ref. friend of, as you mentioned, election officials and the other officials were targeted. they were harassed, they were threatened. their property houses, cars. oh whoa, whoa, vandalized, what damage some of them were killed by ukrainian nationalists. car bombs planted again to disrupt any potential referendum here in kennesaw region. nevertheless, 15 percent of the population came out yesterday and cast their vote, which is to be honest with you. more than many people thought would come out on the 1st day. it is certainly common now because people saw that everything past

everything past calmly that there were no incidence previously. ukrainian nationalists want people to stay out of voting stations for their own safety, presumably threatening to plod bonds of gluten stations. none of that pond out there is very heavy security checks along the way. people came in yesterday sometimes, or where boutique stations set up a business as a big factories other times in schools and people from the streets would, would come in and ones and twos and cost of votes. so 50 percent of the population has now voted more. are expected to, to turn out in the 4 days and including today now that they've seen that they have be new incidence. now that they've seen of it is been violence free. not entirely. that is to say over the nice we saw and film i g ad defense me south streaking up into the sky presumably to intercept ukrainian. missiles here saw like no other

province that is conducting the, the referendum was targeted by american high mas massages almost every day have sun city all its outskirts, struck again and again and again. and this is unfortunately, the reality of the situation. there's nothing that can be done about that the referendum is, is being conducted in more time and people are used to that. nevertheless, no incidence. there are also foreign observers here americans and, and from frogs observe as we haven't talked to them yet. but we plan on doing so and finding out how, how they sheet this referendum going on and how, how, what they plan to report about this. this referendum again, sundays expects it to be the big day when more and more people come out. that is, of course, if the situation remains somewhat carbon of people she and are confident that they

will be targeted if they go to a voting station. meanwhile, here's how some people in the city of minutes of pole in the zap rosier region voted on the referendum. oh, i'm tired of this ukrainian democracy. i want stability. what else would you choose? i was one of the 1st to receive a russian passport. every day you expect something bad from the government of ukraine. everyone who wanted to be in russia's here. everything will be fine with us. everything will be great. i was looking forward to this very much when russia comes and will be with us and we will be them. i expect only good things. here at our facility, every one votes, every one wants to vote. every one is in a good mood. several events were held across russia to support the referendums in dumbass. that includes the city of camera over in central russia,

as well as moscow where thousands of people gathered near a square, waving flags and banners. that was also a rally in and rose near the capital of the chechen republic in southern russia. the events are being attended by representatives of public associations, political parties, and civil rights activists. may oh, i forgot is i'm condemned. the reverend of calling them and democratic. this comes off the years of selective policies, tools, the self determination of people as all to contribute to racial marsden explains. western officials clearly don't support these people in ukraine, having the opportunity to exercise their right to self determination is guaranteed under international law. you as a master to ukraine, bridget brink and nato secretary general jens fulton berg called them quote sham referendums. and the european union's chief diplomat, joseph burrell, dismissed them as quote, illegal referendums, which are quote,

in violation of ukraine's independence sovereignty and territorial integrity and a blatant breach of international law. when territorial integrity comes in conflict with self determination, it's apparently the people's will. that matters most and least that's what the position was. the western officials had towards kosovo. independence. that is, after nato had bombed yugoslavia and carved out kosovo from russian allied serbia, under the pretext of protecting its ethnic minority sounds. a lot like the justification for the referendums now in these ukrainian regions whose people have suffered under kim's attack since 2014. but unlike with the current situation, ukraine, the international community at that time agreed that close to those minority shouldn't have to live under systemic oppression. today our armed forces joined our nato allies and airstrikes against serbian forces responsible for the brutality and kosovo. oh, what i'm really proud of is what we did in class. so i really found it very

difficult to watch when people were being killed at pleasure to united states would continue to work with those nations that have not recognized and independent kosovo, to convince them to do so as quickly as possible. so apparently, the western position only favors self determination if it harms their enemy and benefits the west. another example, what about of taiwan decided to hold a referendum to succeed from china tomorrow. it's hard to imagine that the westwood, denounce it, and argue instead that the taiwanese have to respect the one china policy that the west supports. all, all egging on taipei provoking cheng and using taiwanese chinese relations and tensions as a pretext to rack up sales for the u. s. military. industrial complex. referendums are all equal in the eyes of the west. the democracy exercise by catalonia, in its bid for independence in 2017 from spain, was denounced by most of the you under the spanish constitution. yesterday's vote

to cut the lonia was not only go countries like france, italy, germany and the u. k. were more interested at the time in what a vote in favor of independence for catalonia could mean for their own countries as they struggled to contain independence movements on their own territories. in other words, these people over here are fighting for their own democratic self determination. but how does that affect me? that's what they were doing. as for madrid, it came down to a question of revenue loss as colonia, with just 16 percent of spain's population. also accounts for 19 percent of its g d, p. another of her and, and may be lurking on the horizon in scotland as separate a sentiment as festered since edinburgh voted to reject independence in 2014. but the u. k. 's, newest prime minister list trust isn't keen on permitting a 2nd round. perhaps she's concerned that the result won't be the same. if i am elected as prime minister, i will not allow another. independent trust brings up the notion of family,

but apparently isn't interested in acknowledging similar family style bonds that link the rust, the phone, ukrainian regions to russia. the western hypocrisy and double standards of defending democratic principles to self determination only if and when it suits them, hasn't escaped the attention of the scottish leadership. if she governs as she has campaigned over the summer, she will be a disaster, not just for scotland, but for all of the you key. there's a tendency to denigrate or block referendums that suit the western agenda. but when the irish vote to ratify the lisbon treaty, that is the use constitution establishing a centralized leadership and foreign policy failed the 1st time. while that didn't prevent them from being allowed to vote a 2nd time to secure the desired result. similarly, the dutch voted to enter a referendum in 2016 against the you having closer linked to ukraine. but that

didn't prevent the country's parliament for voting against the people's will. a year later, apparently it was enough to say that, well, hey, they were asked. so given the tendency of western officials to cherry pick the referendums, they support or don't, in accordance with their political agendas, while they're hardly in a position of high moral authority to be telling anyone, seizing the opportunity for self determination, what is or isn't legitimate. well, of course, keep you updated with the latest news of the saturday mom. the 2nd day of voting for millions of precedents. ah, well, after a long separation from bertha's military, personnel from russia on the dunbar,

barbados who been in ukraine captivity have returned home. all teasing maria phenomena important to some of the service men who shared their stories of torture . linda cylinder a happy day for what had been some very anxious families as 55 military personnel from russia and the dunbar. republics, sons and husbands, father's and brothers, who had long been held in ukraine in captivity. have come back home vice zebra storms and he's a, he's a life that they returned. my son to me. thanks everyone. god bless everyone. we are proud of him. we were afraid to lose him. not that we believed we knew that he would return to her. we prayed every morning and every evening the whole city was waiting for him. everyone was waiting for him. all the relatives, his wife was very boring. we are very worried. it's the latest and so far,

the largest prisoners of war exchanged between moscow and kiev since the beginning of the russian offensive in february and both sides a hail and it's a success summer. the most important thing is that they didn't leave us there. when we were there, there was a sense that no one wanted us in our country, but you see how it turned out. our guys quickly took us away quickly, pulled a sound among the 215 key of prisoners. the allied forces traded for the men were 5 notorious as old battalion commanders. but it was a freedom at any price deal to them. they said that no one was worried about you and your country will not exchange you except for us. but we believed that would be an exchange. we'd just believed it. of course, i'm happy that i am in russia. i'd like to thank those who were involved in the exchange that had happened willoughby. i hope that the rest of all people we taken out of that and they will also be at home. the most important thing for me now is to see my family, friends, wife. i haven't seen her since january 1st,

but we signed our marriage certificate and i just left right away. sometimes i talked to her via video link, but basically i haven't seen her in almost a year. plan of the many foreigners who've been fighting on kia side were also released 5 bridge dozens to americans and fighters from the rocco, sweden and croatia. some of the released prisoners who spent months in captivity talk about torture and humiliation, and also confirmed that more and more foreigners are fighting on ukraine's side burst. the yellows, dubuque, yes, they stood armed with clubs from the very beginning. they began to beat me with a bass on unused electric shocks with them. then with every incorrect answer or action i said or did they shocked me? beat me with a baton on my legs until i had bruises or threw up in just a while for body of crew. they beat me with a chair, kicked me and hit me with the mom. they beat me because of a broken chair. they said your cattle, you broke our chair and they started hitting me on the head again. the jagged me with all sorts of needles. my ear, my nose just to mock me to crash for com was on the home of the rover. they

threatened me with a knife, then they threw me into a pickup truck and we drove off somewhere. another 15 people ran up there and they started taking pictures with me, but they might look there. they caught an orc and occupier, took pictures and film to videos. they lifted me by the head and took pictures of the what it was clear from their voices that there were not only ukrainian staircases, a foreign speech was heard. arabic speech was heard someone after that, they took pictures with me there while they continued to beat me to put a knife to my eyes, they put a knife to my groin. he said, we will cut everything off of you now, if you do not confess, anemia with the holes. they also explain why capturing members of the russian military, he's such a desired trophy for those fighting for kias expense thought and that's at the bottom line is that they are nancy's not the i'm for you just the denounces, receive money for the military prison written for surgeons, it's about $300.00 for officers after thousands liang, although his former prisoners released during this recent exchange,

are currently being treated in various russian hospitals. if military dr. commissions decide the our feet. the service men may soon return to the front lines, raving ocean on naughty mazda region. the french newspaper, liberal c. on the report, the each commission blocked x walls of fertilizers from russia. bass and midwestern officials claimed that the anti russian sanctions have nothing to do with fern crisis. the outlet report for the e u. blog. x was a russian fertilizer in august. this happened just a month after an agreement between russia. ukraine reached in is stumble, aimed at tackling the global food crisis present rather than put in hassle. draw attention to the issue and stated that it's a horrible decision to only fight left the band on shipments going west, leaving the most vulnerable countries still in need. with worship is pretty of

nathan road, knew it. she knew it must go. this is unprecedented. this is an ugly decision i would say on the part of the european commission. shameful, to leave the bad on the purchase of our fertilizers, but only for their own country. singapore, e u. member states. no, but really what about the poorest countries in the world? what about the rhetoric that all our joint efforts should be aim to be and preventing hunger in these course countries? is this all of last few national? the papers whining backlit brothers was at will the world food course has, has been created by the wes why their decisions of put in the sanctions on russia. hours, sanctions do not touch basic food commodities. they do not affect the trading of grain, other food between russia and 3rd countries. it's not a consequences all day sanctions, like the russia nagra t 12, convinced people around the world. but the war itself on the blockade of ukrainian

grain on and fertilizers. and i'm glad this is august when we put together the sanctions packages. it is not about madison and it's not about grains and food. just to be clear, we don't accept the rush narrative. they don't want to let the green out of russia . we don't accept that. so meanwhile, they noted, asian says only from 8 percent of growth exposure from ukraine, which is the most vulnerable countries. with 44 percent of it goes to high income states, micheler markovich of paris based political owners. these green mismanagement come from the eas port decision, which is highlighted by the recent exposure shows. first of all, that a visibly ursula vendor lay and is above european law because it's because her guidelines are saying that the european members of the european union cannot do what law or with the embargo from the european says it can do. this is very

surprising. liberation is left leaning very pro european, very pro global is very anti russian date and newspaper in france is extremely surprising that this is coming out of this in the newspaper by one of france, a specialist on the european union. there's rocketmail so, so i think this shows and that something's going on for this, this newspaper to, to think the risk of taking out such of publishing as such an article in the current time. we're really speaking about russia. you've got to go with gloves and you're walking between the 2. it's because it's so difficult to try to get a different narrative out that the main european union, a narrative against russia. i think it's quite courageously brushing is quite surprising and, but it does show if liberation, feels that they've got to publish such an articles. i think that shows that there is a deep problem within the european union within the pro atlantis county. here in france

. and if that filtered through of with such a renown, a journalist, i think the shows is the deep, deep problem within the european union today. why the news our will see the top of the, our a ah ah

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