Monument to the Freedom Fighters and the building of the Berdyansk City Council. Archival photoMOSCOW, Sep 22 The center for accepting applications for joining volunteer battalions has started working in the Zaporozhye region, said the head of the regional administration Yevgeny Balitsky. He already reported that more than 30 people signed up for volunteer units on Wednesday . He noted that all those who signed up would be trained, re-learning their military profession, and in the future a regiment would be formed. «Volunteer battalions began to form in the Zaporozhye region, liberated from Nazism. Today, the center for receiving applications from the Cossacks, who have expressed a desire to volunteer to serve, has already begun to work. in the armed forces of the Russian Federation,» Balitsky wrote in his Telegram channel. Earlier, Balitsky signed an order to hold a referendum on joining the region to the Russian Federation. The referendum will be held from 23 to 27 September.
All residents of Zaporozhye will be able to vote in the referendum
