Residents of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), as well as the territories of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions in Ukraine, which are under Russian control, will vote in referendums on joining Russia from today until September 27.

The question of holding the referendum immediately was raised at the beginning of this week by the councils of the DNR and LNR, reports TASS.

Referendum dates were set on Tuesday, with local parliaments unanimously passing referendum laws while electoral authorities approved the procedure.