Volodymyr Zelensky has tonight led the world condemnation of Vladimir Putin's crushing victory in Russia's sham Presidential election.
With all his serious opponents either murdered, exiled or in jail, the despot is heading for a landslide victory in the presidential election to secure another six year term, the poll by the Russian Public Opinion Research Centre showed this evening. Zelensky said tonight that Putin wanted to rule forever and that Russia's presidential election was an illegitimate imitation.
'The"election" in the occupied territories of Ukraine are null and void & another breach of international law.''Russia's presidential election is not legal, free and fair,' said a foreign ministry statement, adding that voting had taken place 'amid harsh repressions'. Members of a local electoral commission count ballots at a polling station after the last day of the three-day Russia's presidential election in Moscow
Yulia Navalnaya, widow of the late Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny, talks to a woman during a rally near the Russian embassy in Berlin 'International observers have not recorded any facts calling into question the legitimacy of the presidential elections in the Russian Federation,' said the foreign ministry in Minsk.READ MORE: Brave Russians living home and abroad stage 'noon against Putin' protests and spoil their Presidential election ballots at embassies around the world Advertisement In the UK, scores of people queued up outside the Russian Embassy in London to vote in the election.
Navalny had endorsed the 'Noon against Putin' plan in a message on social media facilitated by his lawyers before he died. The independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper called the planned action 'Navalny's political testament'.Russia's Central Electoral Commission head Ella Pamfilova attends a briefing at the Central Election Commission in Moscow
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