2024-03-17 19:53:13
After the publication of partial results of the presidential election in Russia, according to which Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin received almost 88 percent of the votes, criticism of the vote is increasing. The “invented numbers clearly have nothing to do with reality,” said Navalny’s confidant 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.”
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.”
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 did 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.
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.
Putin’s victory in the three-day election was considered a foregone conclusion from the start. Three insignificant candidates ran once morest him. All of the Kremlin leader’s best-known critics are either dead, imprisoned or in exile.
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