Russian-led referendums in eastern and southern Ukraine are set to wrap Tuesday with results expected to claim support for Russian annexation.
forced Ukrainian citizens still in the war torn regions to vote by appearing at their houses with ballots, in some cases with armed personnel, and keeping track of those who voted against annexation.
Konstantin Ivashchenko , former CEO of the Azovmash plant and appointed pro-Russian mayor of Mariupol, visits a polling station as people vote in a referendum in Mariupol on Sept. 27, 2022.On Tuesday acting deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council Dmitry Medvedev warned that Russia would use nuclear weapons if"conventional weapons threatens the very existence of our state."
Medvedev’s comments are just the latest in a series of escalatory rhetoric that has brought the threat of nuclear war front and center amid the conflict in Ukraine. A military vehicle drives along a street with a billboard reading "With Russia forever, September 27" prior to a referendum in Luhansk, Luhansk People's Republic controlled by Russia-backed separatists, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022."I believe that NATO will not directly intervene in the conflict," he continued.
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