tick in the ballot today , patriarch of moscow and all russia kirill dmitry tolmachev artyom tikhonov veronica ilvodchenkova. zulfiya khakimova for the first time as part of russia, residents of the donetsk lugansk republic of the kherson zaporozhye region are voting there , they elect heads of regions, as well as deputies of local legislative assemblies, and there is last-minute news on the turnout preliminarily in the dpr it is approaching 43 three. more precisely, it even exceeded 50% of the lpr. ran to forty-three kherson region more than 58 in zaporozhye 37%. let me remind you of all this based on the results of the first day, a report by yulia pogorelova. it's the first day in-person voting is important and significant. especially for the residents of donetsk, not only because they are choosing their future as full-fledged russians since 2014, and to this day this city is on the front line, despite the martial law, elections are taking place here and in other newly annexed regions with increased security measures and with the general hope that soon everything will change in the world of peace, prosperity, so that childr