UK Intelligence Service stresses that “this election will not be free or fair”

MADRID, September 5 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The British Intelligence Service on Tuesday indicated “absence of independent candidates” in elections called by Russia in four Ukrainian provinces partially occupied during the invasion and annexed by Russian authorities in September 2022.

Russia’s election commission announced in mid-June that elections in the occupied provinces – Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia – would take place on September 10, coinciding with local elections in the Eurasian country.

Therefore, the British Intelligence agency has emphasized that “although thousands of candidates have been identified, according to some reports, there is a shortage of qualified and experienced candidates willing to do so”, as stated in a statement published by the British Ministry of Intelligence. British Defense through its account on the social network X, formerly known as Twitter.

“Nor is there an independent candidate who is not a member of a party supported by the Kremlin, which indicates that these elections will not be free and fair. The National Resistance Center of Ukraine claims that the occupying government has significantly increased the turnout in these elections. census,” they explained.

In this regard, they recalled that “Kremlin polls show that United Russia, the dominant political party in Russia, will win 80 percent of the vote in the four occupied territories.” “United Russia will take the majority of seats in a bid to maintain the Kremlin’s dominance and influence over the occupied territories,” they decided.

The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, proclaimed at the end of September 2022 the annexation of the Ukrainian territories of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia to the Russian Federation, which meant putting his militarily occupied sovereign territories. “They will be citizens of Russia forever,” he stressed, amid condemnation from Kiev and much of the international community.