From the 23rd, Russia's Putin administration plans to start activities that it calls a "referendum" aiming for unilateral annexation of the areas it controls in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has strongly objected to this.
The Putin administration aims to unilaterally annex the regions it controls in Ukraine, and pro-Russian forces will organize a "referendum" from the 23rd to the 27th in Luhansk province in the eastern Donbass region and Kherson province in the south. We are going to start working.
Russia's former president and deputy chairman of the Security Council Medvedev posted on social media on the 21st that "a referendum will be held and territories such as Donbass will be accepted by Russia," and Russia will annex the region. suggested the possibility.
On the other hand, the governor of Ukraine's Luhansk region, which is largely occupied by Russia, Haidai, responded to an NHK interview online on the 22nd, saying, ``After firing at demonstrators opposing the occupation, the Russian army bused a large number of people. I once called them residents who welcomed the Russian army by bringing them in,” he said, saying that the activities that were called “referendums” were just a pretence.
Also, Ukrainian President Zelensky said in a video released on the 22nd that ``the farce of fake referendums in the occupied territories is the same as what happened in Crimea and Donbass in 2014.'' .