🇷🇺 Residents of Donetsk vote in a referendum on the entry of the DPR into Russia

🇷🇺 A RIA Novosti correspondent reports from Melitopol, where a referendum on the accession of the Zaporozhye region to Russia has started

🇷🇺⚡For security reasons, until September 26, the main form of voting in referendums is door-to-door. On the 27th, voting will take place in the usual format - at polling stations.

🇷🇺 Valentina Matvienko congratulated the residents of the LPR, DPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions on the start of the referendum on joining the territories to the Russian Federation

Residents of the LDNR and the liberated territories have the legal right to make their choice. And if they decide to become part of Russia, we will not hesitate, said the chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Valentina Matvienko

🇷🇺 "We're going home." The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, addressed the residents of Donbass on the day the referendum on joining Russia began.

🇷🇺 In Kherson, at the polling station in the seaport, a line of people wishing to vote

🇷🇺 Our Military officers are working in voting stations to prevent any terrorist attacks

🇷🇺 The head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, told Sargon_Hadaya about the referendum: “We have been waiting for this day for eight long years. We find peace, we return to our native harbor.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Despite all the attempts of the enemy, for two weeks, in Krasny Liman, soldiers of the RF Armed Forces, Don Cossacks of the 6th and 208th regiments, as well as volunteers from the Kuban and Terek, did not allow the enemy to repeat the success that they had achieved in the Balakleya-Izyum region.

At the same time, the enemy's losses in this direction have already exceeded the losses for the entire time of the Balakley-Izyum offensive operation.

🇷🇺⚡The first four deputies of the State Duma asked to be sent to the special operation zone to help Donbass

Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia party Andrei Turchak said that Vitaly Milonov, Dmitry Sablin, Dmitry Khubezov and Sergei Sokol wrote statements asking them to be sent to serve in the special operation zone.

🇷🇺 At polling stations in Kherson region, queues

At a number of polling stations, queues began already an hour after the start of voting, said the chairman of the electoral committee in the region, Marina Zakharova

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Russian Defense Ministry showed how the Airborne Forces repulsed the attack of 25 Ukrainian armored vehicles

🇷🇺 Donetsk residents vote in a referendum for the accession of the DPR to Russia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Paratroopers destroyed a convoy of Ukrainian militants

From a drone, the airborne troops discovered that two mechanized companies of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were trying to go on the offensive. As a result: more than 120 enemies, armored vehicles and lightly armored vehicles were destroyed.

Part of the military equipment was captured by paratroopers as trophies.

🇷🇺 Residents of Melitopol celebrate the start of the referendum with a car rally.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian artillery sending gifts to Khokhols