Go to the media bankWe don't abandon our own rally in MoscowMOSCOW, Sep 23In the LPR, DPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, the first day of voting in the referendum on joining Russia ended. During the day, there were attempts at provocations in different cities, which were noted by local officials, but there were no serious incidents. In Russia, four deputies, among them Vitaly Milonov, expressed their desire to go to the zone of the special operation, and the aerospace forces (VKS) of the Russian Federation in the DPR destroyed more than 320 Ukrainian militants and mercenaries, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported. Andrei Turchak said that he had received applications from four State Duma deputies with a request to send them to the special operation zone as part of the RF Armed Forces, the applications would be considered by the RF Ministry of Defense. State Duma deputy Vitaly Milonov, who asked to be sent to the special operation zone, told RIA Novosti that he was already in Donbass, now he is dealing with humanitarian and civil issues, interacting with local residents and authorities.
The United States said they were not looking for a conflict with RussiaThe Russian Ministry of Defense published footage in which units of the Airborne Forces repelled an attack by Ukrainian armored vehicles during a special military operation. It is noted that the actions of the Ukrainian military were timely detected by drones. During the hostilities, airborne units destroyed more than 120 Ukrainian servicemen, armored vehicles and lightly armored vehicles. Part of the Ukrainian military equipment was captured by paratroopers as trophies. The head of the Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said that his son was drafted into the army as part of partial mobilization and had already gone to the location of the military unit. «The law is the same for everyone. Today my son was called up and has already left for a unit on the territory of the unit,» Aksyonov told reporters. The Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) in the DPR destroyed more than 320 Ukrainian militants and mercenaries, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday . In addition, the Ministry of Defense clarified, «in the areas of the city of Slavyansk and the settlement of Ozernoye of the Donetsk People's Republic, units of foreign mercenaries were hit by fire, more than 100 militants were destroyed.» already directly in the residential buildings themselves, according to the photographs, transferred to the disposal of RIA Novosti by the Nikolaev residents themselves through Sergey Lebedev, a resident of Donetsk. Previously, he had already shown pictures showing that Ukrainian firing positions are located in residential areas near houses.Ukraine will deprive the Iranian ambassador in Kyiv of accreditation due to «Russian support» Also, as Lebedev's photographs testify, a Ukrainian armored personnel carrier flew over the fence of the Nikolaev Armored Plant as a result of a Russian strike and fell on a footpath outside the territory of the enterprise. Ukrainian saboteur Valery Panchuk, detained by Russian security forces, who planned to blow up the power line that supplies electricity to the Crimea, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, also admitted to committing two terrorist attacks that did not cause any casualties. He also said that he could not find accomplices in Nova Kakhovka to carry out terrorist attacks, everyone refused, because the attitude towards Russia among the inhabitants of the Kherson region had improved. Voting will last 5 days — until September 27: on the last day — Tuesday — it will be held at polling stations, and on the previous days, for security reasons, in adjacent territories and on applications at home. In the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, the question is: «Do you support secession from Ukraine, the formation of the region as an independent state and joining Russia?» . Preliminary voting results are planned to be made public on September 27-28.
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Russian sappers will check 10 districts in the LPR in two days, where 150 more sites will open for a referendum on joining the region to the Russian Federation, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday. troops, Mayor Ivan Prikhodko said on Friday.The French were furious after Zelensky's demands to Israel Refugees from the DPR and LPR who took part in the referendum in Yekaterinburg told RIA Novosti that they had been waiting for this moment for a long time and dream that they would stop shooting in their hometowns. The precinct commission in Yekaterinburg was organized on the basis of the House of Volunteers of the Sverdlovsk Region, since Friday morning, citizens of the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics come here to take part in the referendum. The referendum on the entry of the Donetsk People's Republic into Russia gives hope for a decent life and security, it was expected long ago, residents of Donetsk told RIA Novosti. “We have been wanting to go to Russia for a long time, we have been waiting for a long time, painfully. You can see for yourself what the situation is now: no one will protect us except Russia,” said a local resident. regions advocated their entry into Russia, showed the results of a survey by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM), posted on its website. Also, according to VTsIOM data, almost 90% of voters in Zaporozhye and Kherson regions on the eve of referendums on the fate of their regions were in favor of joining the Russian Federation. On the first day of the referendum, the Ukrainian military attempted to shell Kherson, but the air defense repelled the attack, said Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the regional administration.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/5f748157168d7c25d2744f1e0706a8eb.jpg" />In Estonia, they began to buy power generators after the words of Prime Minister KallasThe transition of Zaporozhye and Kherson regions to the legal field of the Russian Federation, in case of a positive result in a referendum, could take place within a year, said LDPR leader Leonid Slutsky. A Ukrainian drone dropped an explosive device near the administration of Melitopol on Friday morning, no one was injured , said the head of the regional administration Yevgeny Balitsky. Similar provocations, he said, are recorded in other cities of the region. Preliminary turnout at the referendum in the Zaporozhye region was 20.52%, said Galina Katyushchenko, chairman of the election commission of the Zaporozhye region. The turnout in the DPR at the referendum on the first voting day was 23.64%, the CEC of the republic reported, they also said that there were no violations on the first voting day. referendum, Yevhen Balitsky, the head of the administration of the Zaporozhye region, told reporters. A few hours later, Novaya Kakhovka was shelled again, again at least 10 explosions sounded.Serbia vowed to oppose attempts to expel Russia from the UN Security CouncilZaporozhye NPP employees voted in a referendum on joining the Russian Federation, a mobile site was provided for them, the press service of the Energodar administration said. may also affect the field of information technology, cybersecurity and software development, reports the Financial Times, citing officials. As the newspaper notes, some EU countries, in particular Poland and the Baltic countries, require the adoption of new measures that will be aimed at luxury goods and the field of information technology. Switzerland does not exclude the possibility of joining the EU sanctions against Russia, which may be introduced due to referendums in Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. «The EU has announced new sanctions in connection with the holding of these so-called referendums. If they are implemented, the Federal Council will consider adopting them,» reads a statement published on the website of the Federal Council (government) of Switzerland. sanctions want to ban the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Russian Federation, the transfer of dollar bills to Russia and tighten restrictions on transactions related to cryptocurrency, Bloomberg reported, citing sources. In addition, five countries are in favor of a ban on the work of Kaspersky Lab in the European Union as part of the tightening of sanctions. of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine as of 23.09.2022InfographicView