Turchak urged not to doubt the holding of referendums on the territory of the DPR and LPR

There should be no doubt that referendums in the territories of Donbass, which are under Russian control, will be held, said Senator Andrey Turchak, Secretary of the United Russia General Council, at a meeting of the working group to prepare changes to the party’s popular program. About it reported in the Telegram channel “ER”.

“The referendum will take place, and there should be no doubts for anyone: these are territories – regions of the Russian Federation. And they have the right to be included in the United Russia people’s program,” he said. According to him, assistance to the regions of Donbass should become a separate section of the document – both in terms of social assistance and in terms of the humanitarian mission implemented by the party.

Formerly Vedomosti wrote citing sources close to the Presidential Administration that 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.

March 27, head of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) Leonid Pasechnik declaredthat a referendum on the entry of the republic into Russia may be held in the near future. At the end of July, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the pro-Russian administration of Zaporozhye, announced that referendums on joining Russia could be held in Kherson and Zaporozhye on the same day in mid-September. Also in July, the pro-Russian head of the Zaporozhye region, Evgeny Balitsky, signed a decree on the creation of an election commission to hold a referendum on joining Russia, on August 8 it was signed order to begin preparations for its implementation.

By words head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Denis Pushilin, the date for the vote on joining Russia will be set after the territory of the republic is fully taken under control.

holding a referendum allow and the pro-Russian authorities of the Kharkiv region, but now only about 20% of the territories are under the control of the Russian Armed Forces in the region.

On August 7, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that if referendums were held in the territories taken under the control of the Russian army, Kyiv would withdraw from the negotiation process. Earlier, the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov reported that the Ukrainian delegation of negotiators “left the radar” in the spring.