A polling station was shelled by Ukrainian forces in the Russian-controlled part of Ukraine’s Kherson province, Russian state news agency TASS reported, citing a local election official appointed by Moscow.
Today is the first day of the Russian presidential election. These will last until Sunday and will also be held in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine or even Transnistria, the pro-Russian separatist territory of Moldova.
Ukraine, the EU and NATO have denounced as “illegal” the holding of these elections in Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine.
Incidents of arson attacks in two polling stations
A woman set fire to a screen at a polling station in Moscow on the first day of the Russian presidential election, Russian state news agency Ria Novosti reported.
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“Moscow’s election commission told Ria Novosti that procedures (at the polling station) continued as normal after the incident”. Video broadcast by independent media outlet SOTAVision shows the arrest of a suspect after the fire at a polling station was put out.
In another incident, according to the Fontanka news outlet, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a polling station in St. Petersburg.
SOURCE: APE-ME
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