Four so-called referendums have ended in Russian-held regions of Ukraine - votes which Moscow may use as grounds to annex more territory, BBC reported.
Moscow-installed officials in the regions are now claiming almost total support among those who took part in the disputed votes on joining Russia.
The polls were denounced as a sham by Ukraine's government and its allies.
In the absence of international recognition, the process was not monitored independently.
The votes were held in the breakaway eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. Ballots in Russian-occupied parts of the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia were also organised.
Refugees scattered across Russia were also able to vote at dozens of polling stations, including in Crimea, a southern Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014. Partial results from voting there indicated huge majorities in favour of joining Russia.
Up to four million people were asked to vote in the war-torn regions, which make up about 15% of Ukraine's territory.
News agencies run by the pro-Kremlin administrations in Donetsk and Luhansk are reporting that up to 99.23% of people voted in favour of joining Russia - a high percentage that would be unusual in a vote of this nature.
There is speculation that Russian President Vladimir Putin may announce the four regions' annexation in a speech to a joint session of Russia's parliament on Friday.
In March 2014, he announced that Crimea had joined Russia just a few days after a similarly unrecognised referendum was held there.
If Russia annexes the four regions, which Moscow does not fully control, it could take the war to a new and more dangerous level, with Moscow portraying any attempt by Ukraine to regain them as an attack on its sovereign territory, according to BBC.
"This farce in the occupied territory cannot even be called an imitation of referendums," he said on Tuesday night, BBC reported.
The president added that it was "a very cynical attempt to force men in the occupied territory of Ukraine to mobilise into the Russian army in order to send them to fight against their own homeland!"
