“When the voting was taking place in the city of Rubizhne, shelling began from Ukraine and our voters were offered to simply go down to the bomb shelter ... The voters expressed a desire to go down to the bomb shelter and continue voting there,” TASS quotes her.
It was also reported that Ukrainian troops fired on Gorlovka from Gradov.
On September 23, in the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, as well as in the liberated territories of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, referendums began on the issue of joining Russia.
The voter turnout in the referendum in the LPR at 20:00 Moscow time was 21.97%.
A total of 298,900 people voted in the republic.