Russia held elections in in Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya, and Kherson regions Saturday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin claims to have annexed these parts of southern and eastern Ukraine last September. The West does not recognize Russia’s control of the occupied regions.how the elections were going in these occupied regions. She said the process came across as an “election at gunpoint” because soldiers accompanied pollsters “carrying a weapon, so it was a threat, not verbal, but in fact it was a threat of violence.
A boy looks from a voting booth as his relative fills in a ballot during a presidential election on Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Simferopol, Crimea. People in Moscow-controlled Ukrainian regions are voting in Russia’s presidential election, which is all but certain to extend President Vladimir Putin’s rule after he clamped down on dissent.
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