🔶 Putin accused Ukraine of disrupting the elections in Russia

🔶 Putin accused Ukraine of disrupting the elections in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of trying to disrupt the parliamentary elections in his country. In this context, on Friday, September 18 (September 27), Putin mentioned the ground attack attributed to Ukraine, during which, according to reports, the head of one of the polling stations in Zaporizhia was reportedly killed this week.

For the first time, the residents of Zaporizhia and three other regions in Ukraine, which Moscow illegally annexed after the war, have the right to vote in elections to the Russian State Duma; Areas over which Russia still does not have full control.

The vote will also take place in the Crimean Peninsula in the Black Sea. An area that Russia illegally annexed to its territory in 2014. Alla Pampilova, the head of Russia's election commission, said that after Ukrainian drones hit power lines, 14 polling stations in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region had to use emergency power sources.