The results from Russia's so-called "sham referendums" in four areas of eastern Ukraine are to be revealed later.
Polls on joining the Russian Federation have been held in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia provinces.
They've been widely condemned as illegal by the west, with the UK announcing dozens of sanctions.
It's as Vladimir Putin's mobilisation order for an extra 300,000 reservists to fight in the war, gets under way.
