Millions voted despite the thousands of drones Kiev launched into Russia<\/p>\n
Ukraine has failed in its attempts to derail Russia\u2019s parliamentary elections through mass attacks during the vote, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
\nThe comments came after Moscow and its suburbs were hit by a huge Ukrainian drone raid overnight Saturday into Sunday. The attack killed two civilians in the capital suburbs and damaged an oil refinery, residential buildings, and civilian infrastructure. Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said the \u201cunprecedented\u201d raid involved more than 1,600 UAVs on all directions.
\nThe three-day vote wrapped up late on Sunday, with preliminary results showing the ruling United Russia party far ahead of its rivals and retaining its commanding majority in the State Duma.
\nWith more than 95% of precinct protocols processed as of Monday, United Russia had 57.82% of the party-list vote, followed by the Communist Party with 13.8%, the LDPR with 8.99%, and New People with 7.96%, while A Just Russia scored slightly above the 5% threshold for party-list seats, according to Central Election Commission data.<\/p>\n
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Around 113 million people were eligible to vote, including more than 1.8 million registered abroad, with final turnout exceeding 59%.
\nSpeaking to reporters on Monday, Peskov weighed in on Ukrainian attacks both on Moscow and frontline regions during the elections. \u201cIt is sabotage. It is also an attempt to disrupt these elections,\u201d he said, stressing that the effort \u201chad no effect.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Russia\u2019s frontline areas \u2013 including new regions which voted for the first time in the parliamentary elections \u2013 also came under Ukrainian strikes.<\/p>\n
Rodion Miroshnik, the head of the Foreign Ministry\u2019s mission tasked with documenting alleged Ukrainian war crimes, said 74 buildings housing election commissions had been damaged or destroyed in ten Russian regions during the vote.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is material confirmation of planned actions by Kiev and its partners aimed at disrupting elections in Russia,\u201d he said. \u201cKiev, which is not seeking to hold elections at home, is investing in attempts to disrupt elections in Russia, but without result.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Denis Pushilin, the head of Russia\u2019s Donetsk People\u2019s Republic, said mobile election commissions had played a major role in allowing people in frontline areas to vote despite the risks. He also portrayed the vote as completing the region\u2019s political integration into Russia.
\nValentina Matviyenko, the speaker of the upper chamber of the parliament, argued that the election results had demonstrated Russia\u2019s resilience in the face of Western pressure. \u201cThe West has once again failed: The voting results confirmed that the idea of inflicting a strategic defeat on us by dividing us from within and splitting our society is hopelessly doomed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
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Matviyenko added the \u201cmain and indisputable result\u201d of the election was the \u201chighest degree of self-respect\u201d shown by Russian society.
\nUnited Russia chairman Dmitry Medvedev called the vote a \u201creal result\u201d but said it also marked \u201cthe start of a great deal of work.\u201d\u00a0\u201cHaving received such a mandate from the electorate, we must now set about implementing our national program,\u201d he said. \u201cI have no doubt whatsoever that our party\u2026 will rise to the challenge… We will prevail.\u201d
\nChina, meanwhile, has congratulated Russia on the election, saying that Beijing \u201cfirmly supports the Russian people\u2019s independent choice\u201d and that it is ready to continue working with Moscow to implement agreements between Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping and take bilateral relations \u201cto new heights.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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