"I am going to vote for our Zakharchenko. We don't need Ukraine any more after what they did here," said Valentina, 60, a pensioner. Others seemed to have voted simply out of the sense of civic duty. "I voted for Zakharchenko. I didn't know who the others were," shrugged Artem, 29, a miner who came to vote with his five-year-old daughter. "You have to vote, don't you? It's your duty."