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[00:00:02] of
[00:00:08] of
[00:00:15] of of
[00:00:18] of
[00:00:24] The Russian capital comes under heavy Ukrainian drone attack
[00:00:27] overnight, but several
[00:00:29] a people were build in the Moscow region while
[00:00:33] of a residential building and an oil refinery were also
[00:00:35] struck and this comes while Russians
[00:00:39] are going to the poles for the third and final day
[00:00:42] of the nationwide state Duma elections, but we're here to bring you
[00:00:46] our special coverage as the world's biggest country has its
[00:00:50] democratic say, and
[00:00:54] of that is my vote, one of tens of millions being
[00:00:58] cast around the donbass. but with every vote cast in the
[00:01:01] Dombas, the people
[00:01:04] of the Dumbas show that those threats don't
[00:01:08] scare them. Russian citizens go to the polls all
[00:01:11] across
[00:01:12] of the country, even areas facing daily shelling and threats
[00:01:16] from Kiyev. Generally speaking, it is very difficult
[00:01:20] to intimidate me, it's just not in my nature.
[00:01:23] of Firstly, I don't recognize the landscate all, and I don't watch him on TV.
[00:01:27] As for scammers, they've already left me alone. we have lived too long to be
[00:01:31] intimidated.
[00:01:40] now
[00:01:40] of welcome to RT international, reaching you with all the top stories from around
[00:01:44] the world. i am mike
[00:01:46] in oche. now we start this hour with the breaking
[00:01:50] news. as the third day of
[00:01:52] of parliamentary elections are on the way across Russia. moscow's mayor said
[00:01:56] more than 1,600 UAVs were shown. shut
[00:02:00] down overnight, adding that 450 drones were
[00:02:05] a intercepted on approaching to the capital. now Sergi Sob
[00:02:08] Sobianin says that he
[00:02:11] of has called the attack unprecedented, saying that he was intended
[00:02:14] to disrupt elections. the most
[00:02:18] massive
[00:02:18] of enemy drone attack has been repelled
[00:02:20] of since yesterday. over 1,600 UAVs have been shot down
[00:02:24] across all sectors, including 450
[00:02:27] of while approaching Moscow. my thinks... go to the air
[00:02:30] of defense personnel for their selfless efforts. Nevertheless, few drones
[00:02:34] reached the Moscow Oil refinery and one struck
[00:02:38] of a residential building. There were no fatalities. This unprecedented
[00:02:42] attack was clearly orchestrated to disrupt the elections. The
[00:02:45] enemy failed in this
[00:02:46] attempt. Now Art
[00:02:50] correspondent Omaima is at the scene of one
[00:02:53] of the attacks in Masker
[00:02:54] of region where two people were killed and their children wounded.
[00:02:58] Omar, I'm glad to have you. join me right now, but what do you
[00:03:01] know so far about uh this
[00:03:03] attacks?
[00:03:08] well, as you've mentioned there, and as we heard from the Moscow
[00:03:12] mayor himself, uh, Russian authorities have neutralized over
[00:03:16] 1,600
[00:03:18] of drones of since Saturday, and the Mayor added that
[00:03:21] 450 UAVs were intercepted on their way to the
[00:03:24] Russian capital, was several
[00:03:26] of drones hit the Moscow oil refinery as well as other residential.
[00:03:30] buildings now these attacks were more uh or most destructive
[00:03:34] in the Moscow region where three people were left uh were
[00:03:37] killed uh and several were left injured including the number of
[00:03:41] teenagers and three children now uh the wounded
[00:03:44] are in hospitals getting the
[00:03:46] of necessary uh care possible but uh
[00:03:50] 400 other people including 70
[00:03:56] of of children were also evacuated from other residential building uh because falling drone debries parked fire
[00:04:00] there, still in the Moscow region a warehouse also
[00:04:04] caught fire
[00:04:05] of because of a drone. now due to these
[00:04:08] of events, flight restrictions have been implemented in all four Moscow
[00:04:13] of airports, but uh Ukrainian uh, the Ukrainian armed forces have also
[00:04:17] attacked the Zaparoje region where a drone a Ukrainian
[00:04:20] dr drone struck a school, there
[00:04:23] a were polin
[00:04:24] of station was located. fortunately no casualties have been reported there
[00:04:28] because
[00:04:28] of there were no people uh in the building at the time
[00:04:31] of the attack itself. meanwhile, on the other hand, in the
[00:04:35] Herson region a
[00:04:37] of drone attacked a bus, a Ukrainian drone attacked a bus,
[00:04:40] leaving two people killed, one of which was
[00:04:44] member
[00:04:45] of the electoral commission
[00:04:46] there.
[00:04:50] today, september 20th, as
[00:04:52] a result of a targeted drone attack a civilian bus in the cason region,
[00:04:56] two people were killed. one
[00:04:57] of the victims was our colleague.
[00:05:01] born in 1966, member
[00:05:02] of the precinct electoral commission for polling station number 220 in the
[00:05:06] lower Saragor district
[00:05:07] of the Kson region. was member
[00:05:10] of the present electoral commission 2023 and actively
[00:05:14] participated in the current election campaign for the state dumer elections,
[00:05:17] engaging with many of her neighbors, fellow citizens and compatriots while
[00:05:21] honestly, responsibly and bravely fulfilling her duties. she was
[00:05:25] involved in conducting early voting in the lower Saragor district the Kson
[00:05:28] region. her daughter, Elena Petrovna, is also member the precinct electoral
[00:05:32] commission. As I mentioned before, I will repeat it once more, despicable,
[00:05:36] cowardly bandera scum, who are afraid to fight like men and truly
[00:05:40] engage in warfare, target our peaceful people, primarily women and
[00:05:43] children. I believe that shame will fall upon them and each one them will be
[00:05:46] found. Our strong spirited colleagues continue to
[00:05:49] work. The Russian investigative committee has
[00:05:53] stated that they've opened criminal cases related to uh
[00:05:57] these terror acts from Ukraine, including in Briansk,
[00:06:01] kursk, Vorunyej
[00:06:02] and the Belgorod regions where two other people were killed because
[00:06:06] these Ukrainian attacks. Now the massive raid that struck
[00:06:10] Moscow and the Moscow region. for instance, it struck
[00:06:14] just hours before polling stations were set to open in
[00:06:18] the capital, but despite these attacks, as we've as we
[00:06:22] understand, the 1,443 polling stations in
[00:06:25] Moscow did open on time, overnight the
[00:06:29] Russian armed forces also have launched UAVs against
[00:06:33] logistical centers, warehouses and ports in Ukraine as
[00:06:37] well as vessels that are in operations with the
[00:06:40] Ukrainian armed. now of course the timing of this
[00:06:44] is very interesting because as we know the uh uh
[00:06:47] parliamentary elections here in Russia are still taken place, we are on the third
[00:06:51] day, the final day the elections and one could only think that
[00:06:55] these attacks not only are blint acts of
[00:06:59] terrorism against civilians themselves, but also a way to
[00:07:03] try to disrupt the electoral process here in
[00:07:05] Russia. All right, our correspond and
[00:07:09] bringing us up to speed here. Thank you.
[00:07:14] now let's cross live to former advisor to the prosecutor
[00:07:17] general of Ukraine and ex-diplomat Andrejenko joining me
[00:07:21] right now Andre, i'm glad to have you join me, so Kiev launched
[00:07:25] a massive drone attack on Moscow overnight, just before
[00:07:29] the final day of elections was said to kick off, what do you make
[00:07:33] the timing? let me start from here, the timing
[00:07:37] is to terrorize, terrorize the people so
[00:07:41] they won't... taking part the election process, because
[00:07:45] Ukraine doesn't have elections. I've been watching the clip right
[00:07:48] before uh, we came live and how people are
[00:07:52] voting, and it make me sad that in my
[00:07:55] country we forgot what election is, Russia has
[00:07:59] elections, countries around have elections and the key regime today is
[00:08:02] terrorizing what is left of
[00:08:04] democracy in Ukraine, there's none terrorizing the
[00:08:08] country that are democratic and are are moving in this process.
[00:08:12] and that is the main takeaway from this, terrorizing, terrorizing
[00:08:16] and terrorizing because they cannot win on the frontlines, so they're trying to
[00:08:20] hit what's uh uh, what's easy for them, the
[00:08:23] civilians, and that's that is just heartbreaking for me to see
[00:08:27] that my country that I was part of before,
[00:08:31] Ukraine is just going into this direction, and it's been going there for the last
[00:08:35] 12 years, unfortunately, and people are just waking
[00:08:39] up recently from all this what's happened,
[00:08:42] "Now Moscow's oil refinery was hit again and that's
[00:08:46] despite the US president Donald Trump warning
[00:08:49] Zelensky earlier not to target energy sites. Now
[00:08:53] the question is, is this case of Zelensky blatantly
[00:08:57] rebuffing Washington, or is Kiev taking orders from somewhere
[00:09:01] else? look, it's a case you have to understand that the
[00:09:04] politics, the president the United State Donald Trump unfortunately doesn't
[00:09:08] have the full control the deep state. The CIA is continuing to..."
[00:09:12] to assist in preparing these drone attacks and terrorist attacks
[00:09:16] into the heart the Russian territories, the
[00:09:19] MI6 is on the outsource of this, basically when
[00:09:23] the CIA officially does want to touch its hands on this and say, oh we were not
[00:09:27] involved in this, and tell President Trump that Ukraine is doing it its
[00:09:31] own, the MI6 intelligence, that's
[00:09:35] where is being told that they're being used in the situation, even though CIA,
[00:09:38] Mi6 are both involved in this in these processes, the problem is...
[00:09:42] the president of united states is being misinformed on
[00:09:46] how the process is being done and who's giving the information for the key
[00:09:50] regime to hit those targets because he clearly doesn't understand
[00:09:53] that the key regime zelensky himself and his army doesn't have the
[00:09:56] capability to have the
[00:09:59] intelligence process to hit targets
[00:10:02] within Russian territory Ukraine does not snow
[00:10:06] nothing in
[00:10:07] this in this sphere and that's why the help
[00:10:10] of MI6. united states
[00:10:14] and other probably european countries are involving this, but most i said it's the british in
[00:10:18] the american states. now Zelensky has claimed
[00:10:21] that he needs 40 days or 40 more days. to
[00:10:25] take over Russia with Kyev launching drone
[00:10:29] attacks on Moscow and the surrounding region, what do you
[00:10:32] think the chances of such or success of such a
[00:10:35] threat? we have to understand the timing for this is also
[00:10:39] interesting, we have elections into the United States Congress and
[00:10:43] senate within the next six weeks and Zelensky
[00:10:46] announcing that he can overthrow and destruct destroy
[00:10:50] Russia
[00:10:51] with within these 40 days, he already announced this before during the summertime, nothing.
[00:10:55] out
[00:10:55] of it, thank god, and everybody understands that it's just
[00:10:59] false information propaganda, but at the same time the crime
[00:11:02] capabilities, they're going to try to move forward and terrorize and hit uh oil
[00:11:06] refineries within Russia, civilian targets within
[00:11:09] Russia, just to try to
[00:11:12] show within the elections in the United
[00:11:15] States who is boss here, that's one, second of all, they want to
[00:11:19] disrupt and have the oil prices move up higher
[00:11:23] for Trump and the mag and... to lose as much seats as
[00:11:27] possible, because that's what what the end game is for Zelensky and his
[00:11:30] globalist, deep state owners within Europe and the United
[00:11:34] States for have the macgan movement to lose so they won't get more
[00:11:37] funding for Ukraine, more financial support for the war,
[00:11:41] so this war would continue, that is the end game for this, they don't care about
[00:11:45] peace, they don't care about trump or allies, they just care about theirselfs
[00:11:49] and the money pockets that are going to be filled when this thing is going to
[00:11:53] continue - Meanwhile earlier Zelensky
[00:11:56] announced astronomic deficit in the state budget and
[00:12:00] pleaded the EU for more money to meet his war needs. Are
[00:12:04] the attacks, the prediction of 40 days, the massive
[00:12:07] deficit, what does this sound like to
[00:12:10] you? They need to cover
[00:12:13] up what has been stolen. The key regime is
[00:12:17] stealing in high rates and not just hundreds of millions
[00:12:21] and billions and billions of dollars every trying.
[00:12:25] that is being moved to through Ukraine and we have to understand that money is not settled just
[00:12:29] in the Zelensky's pockets, it's being moved back uh to the
[00:12:33] west, which the globalist financiers the
[00:12:36] German, French, British political campaigns, then reinvest
[00:12:40] that money back into those uh globalis who are financing this war,
[00:12:44] so it's a round around out situation, that's number one, Zsky has no
[00:12:48] money, he he's pushing for uh for this gap
[00:12:52] to be closed, he's announcing that he's gna defeat Russia
[00:12:56] once again as he did for the last uh four and a half years
[00:12:59] and nothing's changing, this is just to for continuation the war and
[00:13:03] he understands another thing part of from the US
[00:13:06] elections, he needs to stay in power because as soon as is
[00:13:10] now his chair is crumbling and crumbling pretty fast and he as
[00:13:14] soon as he loses power and loses this continuation of this
[00:13:17] war or the momentum the continuation of this war he's gna be
[00:13:21] replaced and that's the end for him not just political but physical
[00:13:25] maybe
[00:13:26] in in
[00:13:26] the end process because his allies will not stand for him, so he needs to stay in
[00:13:29] power, that's what he's doing for all means, cover any budget deficit,
[00:13:33] because if he stops paying the people and the military, which I know from they're not getting
[00:13:37] paid for the last three and a half, four months, the military, some military units
[00:13:41] are not being paid, some pensioners are getting receiving their funds, so this is
[00:13:45] process already going on Ukraine, and when it's going to start and
[00:13:48] end is going to be physical, now when
[00:13:52] do you think European leaders will have? enough of his
[00:13:55] constant request for more cash,
[00:13:59] the European leaders are receiving this cash back from
[00:14:03] Ukraine back and forth, that's why they're closing their eyes on all the corruption
[00:14:07] cases in Ukraine basically, they don't care what's happened, before
[00:14:10] we remember corruption was going on and you would see
[00:14:14] somebody moving in forward from the Yanikovic time taking a couple
[00:14:18] of hundred dollars and Europe would just making frictional announcements etc.
[00:14:22] now there's billions and millions of dollars have been stolen. they're being reported
[00:14:26] by the anti-corruption agencies and Europe is quiet
[00:14:29] because Europe understands they have no other way out, they're going
[00:14:33] to continue to support this regime, change it if
[00:14:37] if needed when the time is going to be right for them, they're just
[00:14:41] waiting for a person who to change it to, they don't have the right character,
[00:14:45] the right persona or the right puppet who they replace Zelensky
[00:14:49] with at this time and then they will continue on, but Europe at the
[00:14:53] same time is destroying so...
[00:15:25] you just took the words out of my mouth there, because I was going to ask, Europe is facing
[00:15:29] its own economic walls and recession, the US
[00:15:32] budget deficit has reached almost two trillion dollars,
[00:15:36] how much long can countries with terrible finances their
[00:15:40] own continue to support Zelensky and his
[00:15:43] wars? that is the biggest problem in the
[00:15:47] situation that these leaders the the western
[00:15:51] so-called countries are not thinking about
[00:15:54] their own people, they're going and basically taking
[00:15:58] loans a loan to give loan to
[00:16:00] ukraine,
[00:16:02] and this is not just just crazy, you would not do it personally
[00:16:06] if you were regular. and you will not take a loan just to give
[00:16:10] loan to your friend because you say i don't have money sorry i cannot help
[00:16:13] you go ask somebody else and that's normal here they don't
[00:16:17] care because they they're ready to destroy their own countries because
[00:16:21] they're not willing to to support their own people they're controlled by the
[00:16:25] globalists and that is not already conspiracy this is real fact we're
[00:16:29] seeing from the results of what is happening in Europe total destruction
[00:16:32] volkswagen bmw porsches closing down factories
[00:16:36] industrialization of "germany
[00:16:39] just be destroyed, finished, france is
[00:16:41] and lack of economical default, and maybe next year that
[00:16:45] might happen - things are not going to change with the elections, so the same time I say,
[00:16:48] until the people of Europe will not vote in, the change of
[00:16:52] politics on their own territories, change of political course
[00:16:56] that was going to lead to peace, not war, this
[00:17:00] destruction, not just of Ukraine, which is already destroyed unfortunately,
[00:17:04] but next is going to come Europe, because those leaders are same as..." the
[00:17:08] puppets of somebody else. All right, now we have to leave
[00:17:11] you here now, former advisor to the prosecutor general of Ukraine and
[00:17:15] ex-diplomat Andrejenko. Thank you so much for your time as
[00:17:24] as well, as mentioned, it's the final day of
[00:17:27] voting in Russia for the states Duma elections a pols are
[00:17:31] open all across the country and abroad. The first preliminary
[00:17:35] results are expected after 9. pm moscow time tonight,
[00:17:39] the artist keen is been keeping close eye
[00:17:43] on the polls with a special coverage bringing you all the latest
[00:17:47] updates,
[00:17:59] well as voting is in full swing on day three of
[00:18:02] nationwide parliamentary elections and the scale the process
[00:18:06] spanning across se 11 time zones is immense
[00:18:09] with voter turnout coming close to 50%. now
[00:18:13] Russian citizens are exercising their constitutional right to
[00:18:17] define their future for the next five years. now with the country's new
[00:18:21] regions, more than four million residents have cast their
[00:18:25] ballots early elections with the process still ongoing.
[00:18:29] now in the frontline republics of dunetsk and lugansk,
[00:18:33] people are also heading to the polls to vote. locals
[00:18:36] from the most iconic regions of Russia, Crimea,
[00:18:40] are actively showing up to choose their representatives. In
[00:18:44] addition, multiple polling stations are open in Russian
[00:18:48] embassies, in many locations for Russian citizens who are
[00:18:51] currently abroad. Now citizens the most remote
[00:18:55] corners the country have also had the opportunity to have
[00:18:59] their say in this election. The Russian aerospace
[00:19:03] company Bureau 1440 has provided residence of a
[00:19:06] small. settlement in the country's far north with access to
[00:19:10] remote electronic voting, it has become possible with the
[00:19:14] use of a low earth orbit satellite network a next
[00:19:17] generation of satellite communication. other company
[00:19:21] noted that such cases allow for the testing the service in real
[00:19:25] conditions and in the arctic for future needs. now RT
[00:19:29] correspondent Isabella Bloomberg brings the latest on the voting
[00:19:33] process in Russia. across
[00:19:36] 11. time zones here in Russia, voters are heading to the polls to
[00:19:40] vote for the third and final day of Russia's parliamentary elections
[00:19:44] and it's quite important also to highlight here that this these are the first
[00:19:48] parliamentary elections we've seen since the start the special military
[00:19:52] operation which was launched back in February 2022
[00:19:55] and for the first time in modern Russian history we're seeing citizens
[00:19:59] from the Donatsklugansk people's Republic from Herson and Zaparoje cast
[00:20:03] their ballot as Russian citizens and so let's also break.
[00:20:07] on how these parliamentary elections actually work, because the state
[00:20:11] dooma itself is is considered the lower chamber the federal
[00:20:15] assembly, it consists of 400 400 seats
[00:20:19] and these elections are held every five years.
[00:20:22] 225 of those seats are distributed through party
[00:20:26] lists. now what that means is that citizens are able to elect a
[00:20:30] specific political party and 225 seats are
[00:20:33] distributed through single mandate districts. now voters are able to...
[00:20:37] has the vote or the ballot and select a specific political
[00:20:41] candidate in their constituency or uh their district there as
[00:20:45] well, but for a political party to be able to actually
[00:20:48] reach the state duma It has to meet that 5% thresh
[00:20:52] hold and now Russian parliamentary elections uh start on
[00:20:56] September the 18th and finish today on September the 20th, so it gives
[00:21:00] voters three days to cost their ballot. In terms of
[00:21:03] who's actually in the race, there are currently 10 political
[00:21:07] parties on the federal ballot, the first one being United Russia founded
[00:21:10] in 2001, and a party that has enjoyed constitutional majority
[00:21:14] for a while now, it's also President Putin's party, then we have
[00:21:18] the Communist Party of... Russian federation, this is considered the oldest
[00:21:22] party on the federal ballot, and also it's the second
[00:21:26] largest faction in the duma. Then we have a just Russia for
[00:21:29] truth, and Paul suggests that they will be able to meet that 5% threshold during these
[00:21:33] elections as well, and we have the liberal democratic party of Russia,
[00:21:37] currently chaired by Leonid Slotski after the death of its former
[00:21:41] charismatic leader Vladimirsky back in 2021. And
[00:21:45] of course we also have a relatively new party on the scene here, this
[00:21:48] is uh... people founded in 2020 and curiously this
[00:21:52] political party managed to get through to the duma back in
[00:21:55] 2021, so it'l be interesting to monitor that, whether they'll be able to
[00:21:59] actually,
[00:22:00] you know, garner more than 5% the vote during these elections as well, but at the
[00:22:04] same time there are also non-parliamentary parties on the ballot uh, for example the
[00:22:08] pensionist party, the communists of russia, the greens, rodina,
[00:22:12] and also the party the direct democracy, so to wrap
[00:22:16] up h poll polling stations across russia close at
[00:22:20] 8 p.m. local time according to Russia's western regions,
[00:22:24] so we will be of course monitoring all these developments and bringing you the
[00:22:27] details. other crucial vote is also
[00:22:31] taking place in territories that are coming under daily attack,
[00:22:35] but despite the threat posed by Ukraine, people say
[00:22:38] that they are determined and their voices will be heard. the head
[00:22:42] the Dunetsk republic has cast his vote at the local polling
[00:22:46] station, noting that he met quite a few people who...
[00:22:50] who wanted to vote in their first duma election. now
[00:22:54] RTS Murad Gazdia reports on how the vote has been held
[00:22:58] under wartime conditions. across two
[00:23:02] continents and 11 time zones under ceaseless
[00:23:06] threat of attack, Russians vote for their new
[00:23:09] parliament.
[00:23:20] "in their millions, despite constant threats
[00:23:24] from Ukraine, threats of prosecution and
[00:23:28] persecution, just
[00:23:29] for vooting, attacks on pouling stations, fakes
[00:23:33] and Ukrainian propaganda. Yesterday
[00:23:37] and the day before, leaflets were dropped by drones across most of
[00:23:40] our region, containing calls to block the electoral process
[00:23:44] and urging people not to participate in the elections
[00:23:47] every day we are seeing..." steady stream of two or three
[00:23:51] disinformation campaigns coming from the Ukrainian side, along
[00:23:55] with deep fakes and forged administrative documents, yet
[00:23:59] few are afraid, people are used to drones
[00:24:02] and missiles, verbal threats no longer
[00:24:06] carry the same weight. tell me, have you been in
[00:24:10] intimidated? did Zelensky threaten you saying you shouldn't go to these
[00:24:14] elections, in no way, he can't do
[00:24:17] anything. Of course not, general. speaking,
[00:24:20] it is very difficult to intimidate me, it's just not in my
[00:24:23] nature. God forbid, firstly, I don't recognize the
[00:24:27] landscate all, and I don't watch him on TV. As for scammers,
[00:24:31] they've already left me alone. We have lived too long to be
[00:24:34] intimidated. And that
[00:24:38] is my vote, one of tens of millions being
[00:24:41] cast around the Donas in an environment where
[00:24:45] people are actively being threatened, where electoral
[00:24:49] officials... are receiving death threats, their families, their
[00:24:53] children, but with every vote cast in the don
[00:24:56] bass, the people the Dumbas show
[00:25:00] that those threats don't scare them, not
[00:25:03] even strongly worded statements and
[00:25:07] condemnation could stop these elections. At
[00:25:10] today's meeting, the central electoral commission adopted resolution declaring
[00:25:14] that the organization and conduct of elections for deputies to the state duma
[00:25:18] the Russian Federation in temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine
[00:25:22] are illegitimate. It is, of course, ironic that
[00:25:26] Ukraine forbids Ukrainians from voting in these
[00:25:29] Russian elections, because neither does it allow
[00:25:33] Ukrainians themselves any elections. They're too
[00:25:37] dangerous, says the former president of
[00:25:40] Ukraine. Elections as such are huge
[00:25:43] risk. Elections right now are a tsunami which could split
[00:25:46] Ukraine. Again, the irony: Ukraine.
[00:25:50] Professes to be fighting for freedom and democracy, but says
[00:25:53] elections are too dangerous. Russia, which kier
[00:25:57] accuses of aggression and tyranny holds elections even in
[00:26:01] war. He's holding elections in September, he needs a
[00:26:05] united society that will support his United
[00:26:08] Russia. Zelenski on the other hand, doesn't need
[00:26:12] his society support, his term expired two years
[00:26:16] ago, and no one can do anything about it.
[00:26:20] He already controls all Ukrainian media, all
[00:26:23] newspapers and online publications, full
[00:26:27] spectrum propaganda. Anyone who criticizes
[00:26:30] him can be sanctioned.
[00:26:41] ready to do it tomorrow, but if we have the war, it's
[00:26:45] you can't do it, what elections, how to make elections with the 9
[00:26:49] million people who are abroad, and what to do with the people
[00:26:52] who are temporary or live in tempor
[00:26:56] occupied territories, europe of course will bend over
[00:27:00] backwards to accommodate.
[00:27:04] the EU's diplomatic figure head, is never one to
[00:27:08] overthink it, simple and cliche is her
[00:27:12] style. Putin hasn't had elections or Russia hasn't had
[00:27:15] elections in 25 years, Zelensky is
[00:27:19] elected leader, elected in
[00:27:21] the free and fair elections, and of course during the wartime you
[00:27:25] can't have elections, Zelensky's corrupt ministers, his
[00:27:29] army heads simply don't mind. long as
[00:27:33] the EU supports Zelensky, the aid money
[00:27:37] pours in and it can be divided up and
[00:27:40] shared around between friends. The only concern
[00:27:44] is the people of Ukraine, forced brutally
[00:27:48] to fight a war, they don't want to fight in by a
[00:27:52] president, they don't want, blasted by
[00:27:55] propaganda, they don't agree with, and there's
[00:27:58] nothing they can do about it, but daydream.
[00:28:02] "We must find legal, safe and realistic mechanism that will allow Ukraine to
[00:28:06] restore a full-fledged democratic process even under the conditions of a
[00:28:10] prolonged war. This is difficult. We must guarantee the right to vote
[00:28:14] for our military, for millions of Ukrainians abroad, and for those in the
[00:28:18] frontline regions. We must ensure the security the electoral
[00:28:22] process, the independence of institutions, and trust in the
[00:28:25] results. If Russia could do it, then so could
[00:28:28] Ukraine, and the only thing stopping elections in
[00:29:10] Well, and on such a day when elections are being held, he tried all the more to carry out such
[00:29:14] terror in order to disrupt the elections, at least partially.
[00:29:18] Moscow mayor Sobianin said that since the previous day around
[00:29:21] 1,600 drones have been shot down. Yes, there is
[00:29:25] certain damage, yes, there are even casualties. And the chairwoman
[00:29:28] the Central Election Commission, Pamfilova stated that there were also...
[00:29:32] fatalities among members of election commissions, but this will not stop the process
[00:29:36] and most likely, this is such a petty spitefulness on
[00:29:39] Zelensky's part over the fact that elections are taking place in Russia,
[00:29:43] already the second elections during the special military operation, while Ukraine
[00:29:47] cannot organize such elections at all, so how do
[00:29:50] you think Moscow might react to these Ukrainian attacks given that they're
[00:29:54] taking place during these elections? I
[00:29:58] think that it will be very harsh, all the more so since at one time Russian.
[00:30:11] have been monitored by more than 1ous international observers from
[00:30:15] 133 countries, including bricks, nation and partners,
[00:30:19] turkey, Uganda, Kirgisstan and others. Footage
[00:30:23] here shows the moment of a friendly conversation between one
[00:30:26] the foreigners and earderly Russian woman at the polling station
[00:30:30] in the city of Yacaterinburg. Now a man in the video is
[00:30:34] Muntaza Al Zaidi, the prominent Iraqi journalist
[00:30:38] who achieved worldwide fame when he threw his shoe at
[00:30:42] George W. Bush 18 years ago in protest against
[00:30:46] the US war on his country.
[00:30:49] Now voting is even happening in places you wouldn't
[00:30:53] expect. Rosa Tom head Alexis Lishakev was
[00:30:57] able to cast his ballot at the nuclear power plant.