The United States has information that Russia is preparing to hold fictitious referendums in the occupied regions of Ukraine. This was announced at a briefing by John Kirby, communications coordinator at the National Security Council..

It could happen within a few days before the end of this week, he said..

Potential regions where referendums can be held are Kherson, Zaporizhia, Donetsk and Lugansk regions.

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The United States expects Russia to manipulate the results of the “vote” in order to demonstrate the allegedly voluntary desire of the inhabitants of the occupied territories to join the Russian Federation.

At the same time, according to US intelligence agencies, Russian officials are concerned about the low voter turnout in future "

Kirby added that it will be critical to confront this misinformation in real time..

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Earlier, the adviser to the head of the Kherson OVA, Serhiy Khlan, reported that the “referendum” on the annexation of the occupied lands was questionable.

Note that the Russians have repeatedly postponed the date of the referendum in the Kherson region. It was originally supposed to take place in early May..

Then Kherson collaborator Kirill Stremousov generally assumed that he would be “approximately next year”. Later it was decided to hold it on September 11 - along with local elections in Russia.

According to Russian media, the Russian-controlled occupation administration in the Zaporozhye region issued an order to hold a so-called “referendum” on “reunification” with Russia.

Russia is interested in holding " Supervises the preparation of the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergey Kiriyenko.