The Security Service of Ukraine reported the suspicion of 26 top organizers of illegal pseudo-referendums in the territories temporarily captured by the Russians in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.

This was reported in the press service of the SBU.

As it became known, in particular, three more "high-ranking officials" of the occupation administration of Luhansk region are suspected of collaboration activities.

This is Oleksiy Karyakin, who headed the so-called "public chamber of the LPR", Denys Miroshnychenko - the "head" of the so-called "council of the LPR", as well as Dmytro Khoroshilov - the "first deputy of Miroshnychenko.

They are suspected of collaborative activities and encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine.

"These individuals ensured the holding of events that simulated the preparation and holding of the population's "expression of will".

It is documented that the head of the "Public Chamber of the LNR" sent an appeal to the pseudo-leader of the "LNR" Leonid Pasichnyk with the initiative of holding a "referendum" in the temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk region on joining the Russian Federation with the rights of an administrative-territorial unit," the SBU press service said.

For his part, Miroshnyk held a meeting of this illegal body, during which the "referendum law" and the "resolution" on its appointment were adopted.

"The First Deputy Chairman of the "People's Council of the People's Republic of China" Khoroshilov, together with other "deputies", took part in the meeting and voted for the holding of the "referendum".

These individuals repeatedly publicly called for an anti-Ukrainian "referendum" and declared the need to join part of Ukraine's territory to the Russian Federation.

Together with other accomplices of the Rashists, they will be responsible for the crime committed before the law," the SBU emphasized.

What is known about pseudo-referendums in Ukrainian territories

At the end of September, at a "ceremony", Führer Putin signed documents on the accession of the Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions to the Russian Federation.

At the same time, they announced the "accession" of only those regions currently occupied by the occupiers. 

Previously, pseudo-referendums were held in these territories, on which indicators were "drawn".

After the signing of the documents, a number of civilized countries summoned Russian diplomats to express their concern about the situation and emphasize the illegality of such actions by Putin.

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