“The interim turnout for voting is 90.64% at 12:00,” RIA Novosti quoted her as saying.

Earlier, Kravchenko said that Ukrainian provocateurs threatened to burn down polling stations in the Starobelsky district of the Luhansk People's Republic.

The final day of the referendum on joining Russia to the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions began on September 27.