Russian occupiers want to hold a sham referendum in Mariupol on 4 November, Petro Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, has said.
He suggested that Russia's plan was to announce results of this pseudo-referendum on 7 November, the day of the Bolshevik violent coup in the Russian Empire in 1917.
"A sort of restoration of the USSR," Andryushchenko added.
He noted that the biggest organizational problem for Russians is the difference between occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions and parts of Kharkiv, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions.
According to Andryushchenko, the occupying authorities may announce other dates later.