These Are The Masked Faces Behind Today's Referendums In East Ukraine
Pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine are holding referendums so that they can declare so-called sovereign people's republics in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Kiev and the West consider the votes illegal while the vast majority of Ukrainians want to remain a united country, but that may not matter. The armed men in charge are determined to break away from Ukraine, and there are no international observers present to stop them from rigging the vote.
A Donetsk referendum organizer told Mike Giglio of Buzzfeed, who has been reporting from Ukraine throughout the crisis, that they hadn't invited any "official" observers, but "anyone who wants to can observe."
That quote, and this photo of the "Central Electoral Commission of Donetsk" on the eve of the referendum, sum up what's happening today in east Ukraine.
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