State Duma 'Elections' in Ukraine's Occupied Territories Are Legitimate
Claimed by Russian state · 2026-09-22
What fact-checkers found (1)
- StopFakeInternational law prohibits an occupying power from holding its own elections in territory it has seized. The EU, the OSCE and a number of states have said they recognize neither the process nor its results. As it has done before, Russia relied on Kremlin-friendly foreigners to act as "international observers".
2026-09-29
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