This is the way they want residents with Russian passports living in the occupied districts to be involved in the voting.
The Russian Federation is going to illegally open polling stations in the temporarily occupied territories of Donbas for voting in the elections to the Russian State Duma in September 2021.
This was reported by the Eastern Human Rights Group (EHRG) with reference to sources.
Thus, Russia wants to involve residents with Russian passports who live in the occupied districts in Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the voting.
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