Putin beordrar styrkor att gå in i Ukraina - INVASION NU (2022-02-24)

The Russian occupation of Ukrainian territories is not recognized by any civilized nation. Holding elections in Ukraine’s TOT blatantly violates not only Ukraine’s Constitution and laws but also the 1907 Hague Conventions, the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, the 1994 Memorandum on security assurances in connection with Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the 1997 Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership between Ukraine and Russia, and other international legal instruments.

The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe was denied the chance to send an international electoral observation mission. The head of Russia’s domestic election monitoring group Golos (Voice), Grigory Melkonyants, had been arrested and jailed in 2023. The group put out the following statement: “Never before have we seen a presidential campaign that fell so far short of constitutional standards.”
Polling stations opened in occupied areas of Ukraine on March 14, a day earlier than the rest of the country. Voters there reported being coerced by government agents who visited them at home to pressure them into voting.
There was also widespread reported ballot stuffing, something that appears to be supported by (non-verified) video evidence. Mathematical analysis of the election by a respected Russian psephologist (an expert in how people vote) estimated that up to half of all votes were fraudulent.

Europe’s top human rights body on Friday passed a resolution calling on its members to no longer recognize President Vladimir Putin as Russia's legitimate leader after his fourth term in office ends next year.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) said Putin’s 23-year rule as either president or prime minister “has turned the Russian Federation into a de facto dictatorship.”
“[Dictatorships] constitute a threat to international peace and security and to the territorial integrity and political independence of their neighbors,” PACE said, referring to Russia’s nearly 20-month war against Ukraine.