What is known about the "referenda" in the occupied Ukrainian territories: in the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions

In the Zaporizhzhya region, the occupation authorities officially announced the imminent holding of a referendum on reunification with Russia. This happened immediately after the speech of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, who stated that pseudo -referendums would close the possibilities for negotiations with Russia.

Meanwhile, preparations for “voting” are in the Kherson region, as well as in the self -proclaimed LPR and the DPR, but the dates are not yet called anywhere. "Paper" tells what you should know about "referenda".

Zaporizhzhya region

• The head of the occupation administration of the Zaporizhzhya region of Ukraine Yevgeny Balitsky announced that he had signed an order to hold a referendum on reunification with Russia. He made a statement on August 8 at the forum "We are with Russia."
• Although formally the “referendum” is designed to show the will of the local population, the occupation administration is already talking about its results as a decision made. “Zaporizhzhya land is forever left from Ukraine. The Zaporizhzhya region headed for reunification with Russia and there will be no way back, ” said Vladimir Rogov, a representative of the occupation authorities on August 8.
• In this case, the date of the “referendum” is not called. Information about when the Voting can pass is different. The media has repeatedly written about September 11 - a single voting day in Russia this year. However, on August 5, Medusa wrote that the Kremlin has not yet decided on the date.

Applications of Zelensky and Peskov

• The day before, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that the holding of pseudo -refreshumes would mean the end of "any chance of negotiations with Ukraine and the free world."
• Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov replied to this that there is no negotiations or prerequisites for them between Russia and Ukraine. He also suggested Zelensky to appeal on the issue of “referendums” to the residents of the regions in which they plan to hold them.
• “The fact is that the residents of the region have these plans. This is not we hold a referendum, ”RIA Novosti quotes Peskov.

Kherson region, LPR and DPR

• In the Russian occupation, as a result of a full -scale invasion, the territories of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions were. In all these territories, it is planned to conduct “referenda” on accession to Russia, but in no case the date is not called.
• On August 4, the occupation administration of the Kherson region said that they would decide on the date of “referendum” within a month. However, Ukraine in the near future can conduct a counterattack in the Kherson region: Zelensky and other representatives of official Kiev have repeatedly been announced about this opportunity since July and wrote the American Institute for Studying War. The shelling of the Antonovsky bridge and other crossings through the Dnieper, which are on the Dnieper, which lasted in the Dnieper in Kherson, also indicate this possibility of the possibility of the possibility of the possibility of the possibility of and ongoing.
• In addition, as Medusa wrote , only about a third of the inhabitants of the occupied territories of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions support accession to Russia.
• In the Luhansk region, as the Ukrainian authorities say, local residents are agitating to participate in the “referendum” under the guise of distributing humanitarian aid. The headquarters in preparation for the “referendum” in the self -proclaimed LPR was created in mid -July. The DPR also prepare for the “referendum” and admit that it will be held in mid -September.

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