While it’s possible to hold general elections in Ukraine in 2024, doing so would require overcoming a set of major challenges, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at the Yalta European Strategy forum on Sept. 8.
EXCLUSIVE: Express.co.uk spoke with a Crimean-born expert on occupied Ukraine about the aggressive methods of coercion employed by Russian authorities to force Ukrainian civilians to vote for war criminals and Kremlin puppets in sham elections.
Russia is holding “sham elections” in its occupied territories in Ukraine in an attempt to give its presence more legitimacy, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday during his visit to the war-torn nation. Local and municipal elections are being held in four fully or partially occupied regions of eastern Ukraine: Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and…
Russian occupation authorities have brought in “election observers” to monitor the sham elections it intends to hold in the occupied parts of Ukraine later in September, Ukraine’s National Resistance Center reported on Sept. 4.