LPR (Lugansk) declares day off on September 27, final day of referendum

Donbass, Kherson, Zaporozhye to hold referendum on accession to Russia

The final day of the referendum in the Lugansk People’s Republic on entry into Russia will be a day off in the republic under a decree signed by LPR leader Leonid Pasechnik.

"I rule to declare September 27, 2022, a day off in the Luhansk People's Republic," reads the document published on the LPR leader’s website on Tuesday.

Kherson Region To Hold Referendum On Joining Russia On September 23-27 - Head Of Region
The Kherson Region will ask people in the referendum ballot to vote to secede from Ukraine, the region’s military-civilian administration said on Tuesday.

Accession of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) to Russia is supported by 94% of the republic's citizens, with 93% of people, who live in the Luhansk People's Republic, supporting their republic joining Russia, according to a poll, conducted by the Crimean Republican Institute of Political and Social Studies.

In addition, 87% of respondents in the Zaporizhzhia Region and 80% of residents of the Kherson Region said they would approve the regions' accession to Russia.

Most of respondents were also willing to participate in referendums, with 86% of people in DPR and 87% of LPR's residents willing to cast their ballot.

The poll was conducted September 13-14 with 993 adults in the DPR, LPR and Zaporizhzhia Region each and 1,000 more in the Kherson region.

Earlier in the day, the heads of the DPR and LPR, Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik, as well as the head of the Zaporizhzhia regional administration, Yevgeny Balitsky, and the head of the Kherson Region, Vladimir Saldo, said that referendums on their regions' joining Russia would take place from September 23-27.

The referendum in the Zaporozhye Region involves the issue of declaring independence within the administrative borders of the entire region, Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the civic movement 'We Are Together with Russia', said on Tuesday.
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