Vladimir Putinaccording to preliminary results based on 40% of the seats, won the’87% to the elections presidential in Russia destined as expected to re-elect him for a fifth six-year term. It’s about the record of preferences in the history of the country. Yet another plebiscite for the Tsar it had been anticipated by statements from the Russian Foreign Ministry according to which the “Western attempts to disrupt the vote they were wasted” even “in the front line area”. The three challengers all achieved percentages below 5%. The communist candidate Kharitonov is given 4.7%, that of Gente Nuova, Davankov, at 3.6% and that of the Liberal Democratic Party Slutsky at 2.5%.
“Elections not free and fair” – “No violation of the electoral law that could directly influence the election results was identified in the specific district election commissions,” said Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Gorovoy. But several Western countries have regretted that election they were not “free and fair”. At the forefront was the White House, which underlined how Putin had “imprisoned political opponents and prevented others from running against him”. British Foreign Minister David Cameron highlighted “the illegal conduct of elections on Ukrainian territory, the lack of choice for voters and the absence of independent monitoring by the OSCE. These are not the characteristics of free and fair elections,” he wrote on X. Along the same lines la Polandwho spoke of “a context of harsh repression” and contested in particular the fact that the elections were also held in the occupied regions of Ukraine, in violation of international law, and l’Estonia. For the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, Vladimir Putin is “sick of power and is doing everything possible to rule forever”. “There is no evil” that the Kremlin leader “will not commit to prolong his power”.
Protest – The polls closed at 6pm Italian time and, according to data from the Electoral Commission, turnout reached 73.3%. There opposition protest she managed to take part of the scene. The ‘Noon against Putin‘ called by the team Navalny at 12 o’clock led to the clogging of polling stations in various cities, from Moscow to St. Petersburg up to Siberia, where code Of hundreds of people. No clashes have been reported, but the police have arrested some protesters: the NGO Ovd-Info reported 74 arrests throughout Russia, of which 23 only to Kazan. The tension in the nearby area is much higher Moldaviawhere a person threw two bottles molotov against the Russian embassy in Chisinau, where voting operations for the presidential elections were underway. “The attacker was arrested by the police,” he told the Tass the spokesperson of the diplomatic mission, Anatoly Loshakov.
In the center of Moscow, on the historic via Arbat, a long line became visible at midday, with hundreds of people lining the sidewalk outside the polling station. Various media and social media showed queues at other polling stations in various cities in Russia, including San Petersburg (in the picture). A Kazanin the seat of the physics department ofUniversity of state, the plainclothes police rejected those entitled to vote, young students from the university who had shown up at noon to protest against Putin, asking them to return later a couple of hours. On this occasion, according to Ovd-Info, 23 guys they were stopped. In all the NGO has counted 74 arrests. Overall, however, the police, present in force, limited themselves to watch over the situation and regulate the flow of voters. The protest initiative also attracted support in many cities in the country Siberiaincluding Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Omsk and Irkutsk, as the entourage of the Navalny team makes known. As well as a Yekaterinburg several hundred people queued at a polling station. A long queue had already formed before midday, even in front of an open polling station Yerevan: Many Russians who fled the country immediately after the start of the invasion of Ukraine moved to the capital of Armenia. Other queues are also reported outside Russian embassies all’estero.
Il ‘Noon against Putin‘ is the protest called by Alexei Navalny already before his death, which occurred last February 16 in the penal colony of Kharp. Then she was the widow of the opposition leader, Yulia Navalnaya, to relaunch the demonstration by asking Russians opposed to Putin’s regime to go to the polls at the same time. The queues at the polling stations were relaunched by several users on social media. Other protests had already been registered in the other two days of voting: so far the main gesture of dissent had been the payment of green ink at the polls, which had also led to several arrests. The Duma, the Russian parliament, has also already proposed a law to increase the sentence for those who sabotage elections to 8 years.
Kamikaze drone strikes in Transnistria – Beyond the protests, however, the elections will end up being crowned once again Putin, who will have another mandate to remain in the Kremlin: his reign can reach up to 30 years, only one less than Stalin. The really hot front for Moscow remains the Ukrainian one. This morning, reports theAnsa on site, the anti-aircraft defenses they went into action near the international airport of Vnukovo in Moscow. The mayor of the capital, quoted by Tasshe said that a drone was shot down near another international airport, that of Domodedovo. No victims were reported. While another drone attack hit a polling station in the occupied region of Zaporizhzhia: a fire broke out, causing no deaths. In the afternoon, however, a drone he attacked one base military in Transnistria, the pro-Russian breakaway region in Moldova. This is stated by the local authorities who accuse Ukraine. According to the first local TV channel, following the explosion a fire broke out at the base in Tiraspol, the capital of the separatist region. For now, no victims have been reported.
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Ukraine’s drone attack – In general, Kiev launched a large drone raid during the night numerous locations from the Russia. As well as a refinery in the region of Krasnodar, numerous infrastructures were targeted. The Russian armed forces – according to the Tass – they shot down aircraft in the Domodedovo neighborhood and in the neighborhood of Stupinsky of Moscow, in the district of Ramensky near the capital, in the region of Rostov and in that of Belgorod, where electricity and gas lines were damaged. In total – according to what the Moscow Defense Ministry reports – they were shot down 35 Ukrainian drones in eight Russian regions.