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Ukraine says any Russian presidential voting in its occupied regions would be 'null and void'
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https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-presidential-election-46519ce441f6b8c8006ae3340abcc52f
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The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said any such balloting held in the occupied regions in the country would be “null and void” and pledged that any international observers sent to monitor the Russian election would “face criminal responsibility.”
“We call on the international community to resolutely condemn Russia’s intention to hold presidential elections in the occupied Ukrainian territories, and to impose sanctions on those involved in their organization and conduct,” Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said.
Russian authorities are still pondering whether to arrange the voting in Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.
Russian authorities held elections in the annexed regions in September for Moscow-installed legislatures; Ukraine and its Western allies denounced the votes as a sham.
Russia does plan to hold the presidential election in the Crimean Peninsula, which it illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
This version has been corrected to show that Russian authorities are still deciding on whether to hold voting in the Ukrainian regions that Russia annexed in 2022.
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