On Thursday, borders of Russia and Ukraine will change!!! Voting is expected to conclude on Tuesday.

With "fast-track" procedures comes the dissolution of Ukraine, as the Russian State Duma (Lower House) will debate next Thursday, September 29, the bills that integrate the 4 former Ukrainian regions in which the referendums are now being held.

Therefore, immediately after the end of the referendums on the 27th of the month in Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson, the ratification of the border change will follow on the 29th of September.

A little later, the president of Russia, V. Putin, is expected to deliver a new speech in which he will declare martial law and deliver an ultimatum to the Ukrainians to leave within 24 hours from the territories that now belong to Russia.

Otherwise, Russia will declare war on Ukraine, abolishing the term "special military operation" and all that it entails. It will be total war.

Moscow began holding referendums on joining Russia in four occupied regions of Ukraine on Friday, prompting condemnation from Kyiv and the West, which dismissed the votes as fraudulent and vowed not to recognize their results.

Voting is expected to conclude on Tuesday.

First day of the referendum in the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics went smoothly.
At the same time, both republics reported shelling from Ukraine.
In fact, one person was killed west of Donetsk, while in the town of Rubiznoye in the Lugansk People's Republic, people were forced to vote in a shelter.

Due to the possibility of Ukrainian strikes, some polling stations, notably those in Alchevsk and Severodonetsk, closed earlier than expected.