Secretary of the General Council of the ruling party “United Russia” Andrei Turchak called the new date “Referendums” to join Russia the captured territories of Ukraine. According to him, it will be “correctly and symbolic” to conduct them on the day of popular unity, which is celebrated in Russia on November 4.
“This is a historical date that unites us all. unites us into the very space of the Russian world that the inhabitants of Donbass and the liberated territories dream of,” Turchak believes.
“The deputy head of the administration” of the Kherson region, Kirill Stremuzov, has already confirmed that the region will prepare for the “referendum” on November 4. He expects a turnout at 80%.
Moscow Times writes that, taking into account the fact that the leadership of Russia officially announced the leadership of Russia once, and the alleged terms that were called the sources in the presidential administration were repeatedly tolerated, guarantees that it would not be postponed again, no. However, Turchak assured that, one way or another, “referendums will necessarily take place, and already this year”.
Since the beginning of the war, Russia has captured the entire Kherson, Lugansk, as well as part of the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kharkov regions of Ukraine. In the captured territories, the ruble zone was installed, the broadcasting of Russian Goskanals and radio stations was organized, exclusively Russian Internet and communications were carried out. Prochrevsky governments were also formed there and began to distribute Russian citizenship, recalls the publication.
However, the publication notes, this did not help to win “folk love” – at least in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions, where there were few people who want to receive a Russian passport (23 thousand per 1 million people and 35 thousand per 1.6 million people Accordingly, according to the data for July-August). In addition, attempts on the proteges of Russia are regularly held in these regions.
How the Russian Federation will force the Russian residents to participate in the “referendum” of the residents of the captured regions. However, the American Institute for the Study of the War reported that the Russian Federation considered the option of seven -day “voting from home”, during which the Russian military would walk around the apartments and “interview” citizens.