Ukraine will continue its counteroffensive, despite Russia’s plans to hold “pseudo-referendums” in the occupied Ukrainian territories, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said, The Kyiv Independent quotes.

• “Fake referendums will not change anything.
• Despite Russia’s plans to hold “pseudo-referendums” in the occupied territories of Ukraine from September 23 to 27, Ukraine will continue its counteroffensive.
• Ukraine has every right to liberate its territories and will liberate them, regardless of what Russia says,” Kuleba said.

Ukraine also reacted through Zelenskyi’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak, who called the threat of referendums “naive blackmail” and a sign that Russia is scared. “This is what the fear of defeat looks like. The enemy is afraid and reacts primitively. Ukraine will solve the Russian problem, the threat can only be eliminated by force,” Andriy Yermak said.

We will remind that the separatist authorities in the occupied regions of Luhansk region, Donetsk, Kherson region and Zaporizhzhia announced on Tuesday the holding of referendums on joining Russia, which immediately received a positive reaction from Moscow. The two so-called people’s republics of Donbass and occupied Kherson also announced the dates of voting – September 23-27, and the Russian puppets in Zaporozhye have not yet specified the dates.