In the Zaporozhye region, 93% of those who voted on September 23 supported joining Russia

This is reported by the Crimean Republican Institute of Political and Sociological Research (RIPSI).

“Of those who voted in the referendum and answered the question 93% “for” the entry of the Zaporozhye region into the Russian Federation, 7% support the Ukrainian status of the region,” the report says.

According to the RIPSI, on the first day of voting in the referendum, September 23, 2022, 500 residents of the Zaporozhye region were polled. 

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 procedure for expressing will will last until September 27 inclusive.

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots Artyom Turov, in an interview with RT, spoke about the voting process in the Kherson region.