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A news item involving 2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 30 September 2022.

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Updating article with 2025 comment?

Can we update the US comment from 2022 by adding the comment by Steve Witkoff where he claimed "that referendums in the four Ukrainian regions claimed to have been seized by Moscow but do not fully control—Kherson, Zaporizhia, Luhansk and Donetsk—showed most there wanted to be under Russian rule." Source for this is https://www.newsweek.com/steve-witkoff-putin-russia-war-2049512 Thanks Slàinte mhath a chàirdean (talk) 23:13, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No WP:SOAPBOX. ManyAreasExpert (talk) 23:19, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Forgive my ignorance here but if a country has appeared to change its official view, is it not appropriate for this to be reflected in the article? Slàinte mhath a chàirdean (talk) 23:24, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It was "Steve Witkoff claimed", not "a country has appeared to change its official view". ManyAreasExpert (talk) 23:33, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Poor sentence in lead

"At the time of the referendums, Russia did not fully control any of the four regions, where military hostilities were ongoing at the time"...sentence starting and finishing with 'at the time'. Slàinte mhath a chàirdean (talk) 16:40, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the second one. TDL (talk) 01:55, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Slàinte mhath a chàirdean (talk) 16:27, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any estimate of actual turnout?

It is clear that the Russian government could publish any participation numbers they want. Are there any independent estimates of how many people voted in the various regions?

Just after the "referendums", there were several reports that real turnout was extremely low. But these seem to be largely forgotten. Alvestrand (talk) 05:51, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]