RT News - September 27 2022 (09:00 MSK)

The referendums on joining Russia draw to a close on the final day of voting for people in the Donbass republics and two other regions on seceding from Ukraine. While Western media and politicians claim the referendums are being conducted 'at gunpoint', residents in the four voting regions are facing relentless shelling and threats of reprisals from Kiev. 17 people are killed, including eleven children, as a devastating school shooting rocks a central Russian city.