Referendums in the DPR, LPR and other territories are unlikely to coincide with voting day in the Russian Federation

Referendums in the DPR and LPR, as well as in other territories of Ukraine affected by the military operation, most likely, will not be combined with a single voting day in the Russian Federation, which will be held on September 11. Five interlocutors close to the presidential administration (AP) told Vedomosti about this. Three of them attribute this to the fact that the troops have not yet occupied the entire territory of the DPR.

Representatives of the Russian Federation did not officially name September 11 as the date chosen for the referendum. The head of the pro-Russian military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine, Yevgeny Balitsky, said in an interview with Izvestia on August 11 that it was on this day that a referendum could be held. This region, like Kherson, is almost completely under the control of the Russian Federation. The head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, noted that a referendum is possible only after “the liberation of the territory of the DPR.” The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said on August 24 that the republic was ready to hold a referendum: “The main thing now, what we are waiting for, is the exit of the allied forces to the administrative borders of the republic.”