because - only 2 of those regions broke away in 2014 and not 4 - more than half of the population run away either in 2014 of this year - one of those regions

because - only 2 of those regions broke away in 2014 and not 4 - more than half of the population run away either in 2014 of this year - one of those regions only 1/3 to 1/2 under control of russia but they claim sovereignty over entire regions - 2 of those regions were captured by russia 6 months ago - voter participation is extremely low. For example I saw numbers that in Kherson region voted 34k people out of 1m population (most probably run away) - same happened in Zaporizhzhia. More than half of population of Zaporizhzhia region is located in Zaporizhzhia and it's suburbs that are under ukrainian control - because there are plenty of videos showing empty ballots been counted by person that doesn't even look at them as they take them out of the box - military personal walking around with "referendum committee" and bunch of reports that people that voted "no" had their documents taken away and those ballots thrown away. - 97% "yes" vote, totally not suspicious