Soldiers continue their door-to-door campaign to solicit coerced votes in Mariupol
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00:00 Russian so-called elections are being held in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
00:05 Kyiv has claimed the vote is illegal and void.
00:08 As in other occupied regions, preliminary elections started several days before polls opened in the rest of the country,
00:15 with mobile ballot boxes arriving at people`s doors.
00:19 Occupational authorities claim this is for security reasons.
00:24 The Ukrainian government sees it as an attempt to artificially raise the turnover and to plainly intimidate voters.
00:32 Mobile boxes are accompanied by armed people, they say.
00:37 Mariupol witnessed death and destruction during the Russian siege and heavy fighting in early 2022.
00:44 Occupational authorities claim they are actively rebuilding the city, showing renewed facades of residential houses damaged earlier by shelling.
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