Speaking at the coordination board of the Verkhovna Rada, speaker of the Verkhovna Rada/Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov says 24% of residents of Luhansk Oblast and 32% of Donetsk Oblast with the right to vote had voted in the so-called ‘referendum’, according to the information from the Interior Ministry and experts present on May 11 in the Donetsk Oblast.

At the same time Turchynov underlined that voting at the “referendum” in many towns of Luhansk Region and Donetsk Region was not held at all. Turchynov strressed that the ‘referendum’ is a farce without any act of law. “This farce can have only one consequence: criminal responsibility for its organisers,” he said.