Holding a referendum in Donbass is not yet possible, Peskov said

MOSCOW, June 2 It is hardly possible to hold a referendum on the entry of Donbass into the Russian Federation under the current conditions , first you need to ensure the security of the republics, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov. Earlier, in an interview with RIA Novosti, the head of the international committee of the State Duma, a member of the negotiating group with Ukraine and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, Leonid Slutsky said that the referendum on the entry of the DPR, LPR and Kherson region into the The Russian Federation may pass simultaneously in July. “It is not in the Kremlin to make decisions on referendums. We have repeatedly said that the people who live in these territories themselves should decide their fate. It is they. First, it must be the decision of these people. create appropriate conditions,» Peskov said, commenting on Slutsky's statement and answering the question of whether such scenarios are being discussed in the Kremlin and how such initiatives are treated. «Of course, when security is not fully ensured, and we see that the Ukrainian military continues to strike and Ukrainian nationalists for civilian purposes in these territories, and so on, of course, under these conditions, one can hardly speak (of holding a referendum). This requires the desire and decision of the people themselves and it is necessary to create conditions,» he explained.June 1, 11:26Special military operation in UkraineSenator allowed referendums in the DPR, LPR and southern Ukraine during the year