Editor’s Note: Pro-Russian separatists on May 11 are holding their referendums on whether Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts should declare independence from Ukraine. The same type of illegal voting took on March 16 Crimea, which led to Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s peninsula. The Ukrainian government and most nations do not recognize any of these referendums.

Separatists keep reporting high turnout at the referendums