“Today we will make an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin,” said Vladimir Rogov, head of the “We are with Russia” movement, a member of the main council of the separatist regional authorities of Zaporozhye. As a result of the referendum on the issue of joining Russia.

In a statement on social media, he indicated that “as far as I understand the logic of the operation, this appeal will be considered in the coming days.”

For their part, the separatist leader in Luhansk, Leonid Bashnik, said: “Today we will prepare a document that implicitly invites Putin to the Russian Federation,” while the Kherson separatist authorities said: “We are preparing an implicit request to Russia.”

Electoral commissions in the regions of the referendum on joining Russia in the south and east of Ukraine announced yesterday the final results of the vote count.

According to the election commission of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the count of all votes cast in the referendum on joining Russia showed that 99.23 percent of those who voted were in favor of joining.

For her part, the head of the Central Election Commission of the Lugansk People’s Republic, Elena Kravchenko, said that 98.54% of voters voted for joining Russia.

The Electoral Commission of the Kherson region in southern Ukraine announced that 87.05% of the region’s voters voted in favor of joining Russia.

As for the head of the CEC of the Zaporozhye region, he pointed out that after counting all the votes, 93.11% of voters voted for joining Russia.