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V the military-civilian administration of the Kherson region, which administers the area under its control under the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, explained the reasons for abandoning the idea of holding a referendum on independence or joining Russia. A number of media have previously written that the region could become the People's Republic of Kherson, analogous to the DPR and LPR. The latter also spoke about the possibility of holding a referendum on the issue of accession to the Russian Federation, as was the case in Crimea in 2014.
Rejection of the Kherson referendum is related to ignoring the results of the Crimean will and civil administration Kirill Stremousov.
There will be no referendums because it is not absolutely important, “he added.
A while earlier, a representative of the new Kherson administration said framework for joining Russia and intends to ask Russian President Vladimir Putin to accept the region as another Russian entity. The Kremlin also said that “whether or not such treatment should be decided by the people.” The Russian authorities have also not yet commented unequivocally on the prospects of the DLR and LPR referendums.