To Russia and the Russian media, the pseudo-elections of November 2 in the so-called ‘DNR’ and ‘LNR’ are free and democratic, as evidenced by statements made by ‘international observers.’ According to some Russian media, these pseudo-elections are considered legitimate even in the EU Parliament. The Russian media also published a report about 13-year-old Stas, whom National Guard servicemen allegedly forced to spy.

NTV channel fake about 13-year-old Stas
Russian TV channels LifeNews and NTV shared a report on the same topic: about a 13-year-old boy from the village of Chervony Lyman of Donetsk oblast. The report claims that soldiers of the Ukrainian National Guard allegedly gave him narcotic injections and forced him to go to the pro-Russian mercenaries to later report on the whereabouts of their roadblocks. “A teenager from Chervony Lyman of Donetsk oblast spoke on camera about things that even an adult would find difficult to imagine. The student told about how Ukrainian soldiers came to their home, beat his mother, put a gun to his father’s temple and ordered him to tell them the locations of the rebellion bases. Otherwise, they promised to kill his parents. The boy remembers the servicemen giving him a shot, his head spinning and then taking his bicycle almost 50 kilometers to reach the ‘rebels’,” says the report.