Russia election: Numbers invented for Putin according to Navalny team

The “invented numbers clearly have nothing to do with reality,” said Navalny’s confidante Leonid Volkov on Sunday on the Telegram online service. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denied the election “any legitimacy.”

“This election fraud has no legitimacy and cannot have any,” Zelensky said in his evening video address on Sunday. “This figure (Putin) must end up in the dock in The Hague – we must ensure that, everyone in the world who values ​​life and decency.”

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Putin has been faking another election these days. “It is clear to everyone in the world that this figure, as so often in history, is simply obsessed with power and will do anything to rule for life,” Zelensky said. “There is no evil that he will not commit to prolong his personal power.”

“He is afraid of only one thing – justice”

In view of the Russian invasion of his homeland and the war that has now lasted more than two years, Zelenskyj demanded justice. “There must be just retribution for everything Russian murderers have done in this war and in the interests of Putin’s lifelong power,” he said. “He’s afraid of only one thing – justice.” One of Ukraine’s demands for a peace agreement with Moscow is that those responsible in Russia’s politics and military should be held accountable before an international court.

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Poland criticized the vote as “not legal”. “Russia’s presidential election is not legal, free and fair,” said the Foreign Ministry in Warsaw in the evening. The election was held “under severe repression” and in occupied parts of Ukraine in violation of international law.

No congratulations from Steinmeier

According to his spokeswoman, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier does not want to congratulate Russian President Vladimir Putin on his re-election. “There will be no letter to Putin,” said spokeswoman Cerstin Gammelin to the “Tagesspiegel” on Sunday evening. In a statement by Steinmeier that she previously shared on the X platform (formerly Twitter), she said: “Today I am thinking of the people in Russia who are fighting for freedom and democracy and who live in constant danger from Putin’s regime. We do not forget these brave people .”

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Austria’s Foreign Ministry had already expressed criticism on Friday, at the start of the election. The election began amidst repression, intimidation and persecution, it said on X. It was also pointed out that there were no independent election observers from the OSCE. “The Russian people deserve a real election and the security and freedom to exercise it,” it said on X. It also condemned “the sham elections” in the occupied regions. “These “elections” are illegal, their results have no legitimacy whatsoever!”

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Putin’s victory in the three-day election was considered a foregone conclusion from the start. Three insignificant candidates ran against him. All of the Kremlin leader’s best-known critics are either dead, imprisoned or in exile.

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