Separatists
Hold Snap Secession Vote in
Rebel-Held Eastern Ukraine
DONETSK,
Ukraine — As the sun rose early Sunday morning over the slag heaps that dot this industrial region, separatist leaders were still hammering away on hastily erected voting booths in which residents of Donetsk would soon cast ballots in a haphazard referendum on seceding from
Ukraine and creating a new, quasi-independent republic.
Ballot boxes used in past presidential elections and adorned with the Ukrainian crest were redecorated with the separatist flag of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic.” In at least one centrally-located Donetsk ******, volunteers frantically stacked and sorted printed explainers and poorly photocopied ballots that asked: "Do you support the act of state sovereignty of the Donetsk People's Republic?" Voters could chose between just two options: “Yes” or “**.”
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