maria, commendable, he loudly told her i'd be to the true tv, any particle at all. it was already different to click on the surface. it practically seem to comment and based on my the phone and due to complete gives the risk easy, longer in the pollution mac. the last i simply mine and can prove that most of the russian forces were pell another, attends by ukrainian troops to infiltrate the boat to region and fell. garage with 2 civilians were killed by selling earlier this. today, for this on the russians all across the biggest country of the world have been heading out to cost of votes for the 2024 presidential election. and as we understand, so for $66000000.00 russians at least have cost that funds. but it's not over yet. the election continues to,

especially when i was in the recently freed city about the upcoming are among those voting for the president and the don't. yes, we're public out across the rushes of the new regions for the best time ever been sold so hard to explain. all the good can be and disappears. last 3 weeks have already made it easier and we hope things work. the very well welcome to the international with the latest world news uptake has always is great to have. the weather's almost go. it stays is to force is half tools that are fresh at times by ukrainian troops to infiltrate russian border regions. and drone photos released by the russian defense ministry shows a group of ukrainian sol. just trying to sneak across the board into the belgrade region most go saves the sun because we are quickly beaten by closing up to

thirty's soldiers, 3 times and multiple other vehicles. the earlier on sounds a day to civilians were killed and 3 more wounded off to a residential positive belgrade city came under ukrainian. shelley, as, according to the governor of the russian region, and in other words, huck the ad decide this isn't a septic 15 check supplies. well, kids that were 5 across the board if i keeps troops wounding at least one civilian, i'll see produce. i'm a gomez beach. i have found a report from belgrade earlier today. i know the duck has happened just this morning and we just myself local, govern, assess h m o arrest. rule gets work and deceptive. but unfortunately not all of them are intercepted leaving 2 people dead and 3 more wounded. i was a did all of the places myself and well, pedestrian area, residential building comp walking. it does not look like a meal trip target. actually attacks on the region of intensified great lakes in

recent days. just yesterday they were 3 weeds of arrow attacks. as far as i can see right now, this is their main goal to spoiled rushes of presidential elections. people are going to the point station at some point, they're afraid, but they want to express their, their concerns. they a believes and basically they just want to win a world and they said that nothing will stop them from doing. and the 2nd day of the russian presidential election has wrapped up the old opponent stations and now close across the country, but will reopen in a few hours in the far east. for the 3rd and final day of voting on sunday, at the moments the official turnouts has the post 58 percent, meaning that over 66000000 people have made that choice on us, not even including all the votes that would cost online as possible, and special coverage we have a studio set up in the house of the russian capital, bringing you updates on all the key developments, the the

so here we are downtown moscow, the heart of the russian capital here with the company behind the bait and his glory is lights from one of us here wishing you a very well welcome to our special election coverage the so we're looking at the numbers now. the 3 day election is going to wrap up in about 24 hours or so sunday evening. but at the moment, as we understand that the numbers keep coming in by the minute, let's talk about the full candidates. say you bought the incumbent, had a state of course environment food and he's been at the helm since 1999. but the other 3 candidates are also national lawmakers of let us off that phone calls from the new people's party, a veteran, russian, and russian. businessman laid slootsky views from the liberal democratic party. and

the communist nikolai had a total of who's been a member of the state do most since 1994 also leading the the parliamentary committee on russia's arctic and far eastern development. well, we now joined by a very special guest here with our studio at austin international elizabeth, one gotti. you who know your one of the many of the see one of the many international observers. what are you seeing so far? is it looking legit? good evening, rory, it has been totally transparent. no complaints on my side. i went to the civic chambers this evening or this afternoon, and the cameras on nova, with about 20 volunteers watching all pulling stations, and russia, and the fact the 20 individuals are what almost 20. it could be slightly more watching all over russia. it's effective, it's efficient and i'm really impressed. have you seen any areas where russia could

improve on the election process? any complaints from you? perhaps? um no at day one was a little bit worried when i went to the fast to pulling stations and i was just absolving elderly people voting and i had to ask my guide. and she told me the reason that you're not seeing young people there is because it's a friday day of school and more so she added, but based on up where they can do the electronic voting. that's right. and i was so impressed. so you can be on your busy day like she was and i asked her when is she going to what she reminded me again, elizabeth, we have an up, i can book any time somebody sitting here with you, i can vote. so i mean, those are the things that i feel like i would call you back home. yeah, yeah. we in kenya, we are so used to long polling lines at the polling station. i mean, if you have enough, it cuts the long pulling lines, but we have back home. yeah. so yeah, for me, i'm just impressed. is there any way that you've seen that anyone could try and

stuff valid boxes all try and deal with judith mise this election process? honestly, i don't think so. again, all pulling station specific rooms have all the pieces to become are, as i can tell you, the portable model boxes that i've taken home. most people who are disabled and unable to go to the police station. i was fortunate enough to actually see one be brought back with the votes, cost it, and the lady cut the seals right and took the volts out and fucked them in the field. she filled them and put them in the safe with your position as an international election observer. when you hear about shelling or a tax on civilian areas, when people are trying to cost a vote, how does that make you feel and, and could you, could you be an observer in $1.00 of those regions to try and help with people that people are trying to utah, a prospect election or transparent election,

then i'm going to bomb the military. they're going to cause some disturbance with the civilians who actually supposed to be the ones costing the volt. yeah, yeah, so this is expected, but i think the russian spirit is strong and that, but you're optic. the fact that this happened on day one and you still have people going out to vote on day 2 and probably will the, that a date of the day 3. it's speaks positive. positive about the russian. it's very, it tells you something you talk about the russian spirit. is he something about the resilience? yes. over the russians on the um, i want to tell the african the does the time to open. the eyes of health might not be coming from the west and might be coming from the east. the folding stations are going from 8 am to 8 pm, and basically in the next couple of hours following stations reopen and rushes far east. i so confusing because there's so many times on here. so anyway, 11 times ons and that's what it is now. admittedly, that help you know,

a couple of trouble makers who have tried to solve the voting process. we can show you some footage to apparently a, some employees that upholding station prevented a woman from pouring green dye into a ballot box on friday. several similar cases store a total of more than $200.00 pallets ruined across some 20 regions of the country. all the perpetrators, the time they will face up to 5 years in prison because you can't do that. the state property. now election, officials say the suspects were a piracy blackmailed by people that legit leave as they say, the election officials are blaming ukraine and some weston countries. now of course, the vote is also being in full swing in the newest and baffled russian regions. despite the constant ukrainian, the threat of shelling and one pointing station is that all she recently came under a drone, a top with no casualties, reported the key of did shell upholding station in the neighboring kind of southern region. on friday. i know you this saturday, are you crazy and striking that same area killed one severely and wounded for others according to local russian officials. and yet, despite all of that,

the russians are still going out side. they are still going to the polls. i mean, it really tells you something about the resilience of the russian people, the determination, because at the end of the day, no matter where you are watching us from. if you been living in russia for any number of 1015 years, even in the past 5 years, you have been on the basing and of anti russian rhetoric or across the western media and political landscape. we felt it here. we're living on to 50, you know, more 1000 sanctions, certain western professional partners have been trying to destroy this country for years. and what's happened. russia is now surviving and striving, and frankly, economically speaking as well, is doing better than it's ever done. now, when it comes to the newly liberated russian territory, is what about the big town of, of day of code that was a, a big frontline hotspot. it was a lot of islands happening there, but it's been liberated and people are focusing his on his own roman corporate us

now reports voting began. and the reason the liberated city of, of dave, the people here, most of them are still living in the basement because the town was devastated. vice battle in the recent years. right now we don't want to be home shelters, wear and election commission setup voting both. so people can exercise their right now, all of these local residents, they used to have your crate and passports spots. i sense for the duration of our data. global storage is made and everything possible for them to get their russian documents as soon as possible. and now they will vote in their 1st ever russian presidential election though is still homeless and i am happy to go vote, but i will have to wait a bit. so they told us to stay home and the people would come help us cost our votes, their is. so then i'll come home and vote again. ok,

i'm just getting the shortages. i'm glad to be here. we didn't even expect to vote . the main thing is that we all vote together, especially with it so, so hard to explain all the good can be and this tiers the past 3 weeks have already made it easier and we hope things will get even better after were missing some of really fear dropping things in the town of have dave go, which was devastated by battles were now heading to done. net square high will be taking part in the russian presidential election. but right now we receive the news that there are drones, ukrainians on flight right. of, of a so literally from here as soon as possible, the funds that we have made, it's back to the mask safely from of they've got whole this needs and ask,

it's not as dangerous as it is over there, but we're just about 17 kilometers away. so, but right now i can take this with the fish just off and go and cast my both the. i'll leave this here. got my passport, microphone. good, good. click presentable. that's gone about the obviously to turn out here in damascus. quite high. you can see all these people came out here to vote. so i guess i'll take my place in line right now. the most this ford is chris secret.

i'm sorry, the vote for for thursday vote for the future and have all of us leave for security and peace for all of us. for the historic moment, the voting for the president's health rush, i here in the and this people have voted for the 1st time in the presidential and that's the but sir now absolutely agree. yeah, well that and voting will continue for the next 2 days. and of course we'll be here to cover room on call for of hard to use the desk for public stuff. but meanwhile, in the crimea and city of a separate stuff, all of which of course, were united with russia after a referendum about a decade or so ago, locals have been out all day today, causing the votes yesterday as well. the 2nd time inside the russian citizens and that strategic southern city of voting for the countries president and the foreign

minister of russia. so get a lot for office hail the election day. i would also say the cry via the poll put in so there's not just a part of russia, it will always be a part of russia, which you will remember that disturbing a terrible spring when neo nazi ceased. how inc, have as a result of a bloody included tom. we also remember the notorious friendship trains, which way equipped with the ideological follow is of band dare to suppress the inhabitants of the peninsula who did not want to give up the values that culture, that history and the centuries old traditions of the ancestors. the subsequent mc crime in sanctions, the undermining of power lines, transport, energy and water blockades, only convince crime means they've made the right choice. the issue of ownership of crime, the answer basketball is closed, the peninsula is an integral part of the russian federation issue doing well, however, the french president to a manual macro and whatever you will say about that very little 9. he's being

really just going off to rush. i mean, not just ever since you cry and kicked off a couple of years ago, but he's really just been lambaste thing the russian federation. also the new territory is also the crime. and of course, i mean a manual macro, and he's got to be in his bonnet these days. what can you do about it? he's been saying that crimea should be seized. he said, sees crimea, take it away from the russian federation, and then that will be peace and stability that well, let's see what the people have cry missing as our correspondent oddities donald colt. it does some good investigative like walk. it's been 10 years since crime me a took its fate into its own hands, voting to become part of russia independence a lot has undergone a dramatic transformation all despite the western. nay sayers who did everything in their power to see where unification fail. once he grabbed crimea, pretend this deployed new a new russian forces in the peninsula, turning the territory into an armed comp for which to threaten the risk of

ukraine. we will continue to hold russia accountable until it returns full control of premier to ukraine and completely withdraws its forces. it is also important to acknowledge that the situation and economists republic of crayton year and the city of citrus, the pope, has further deteriorated. a new crime is most grandiose project was likely the crime in bridge. russia's vital artery of transports through the curt straight . a similar accomplishment was the construction of the to read the federal highway which sides grand opening in 2020. these are just 2 of many new pieces of infrastructure across the peninsula, and that's done wonders for people. standard of living is the possibility of good news. a lot has changed over the years. first of all, we feel supported like ukraine has tons of us to pole into the backwoods. and now that the city is blaming it will do take

a look at what the odds we have now. i see we have an excellent tool to supply. during this time here is i have received the russian citizenship. i have my own business. i bought an apartment and my daughter grew up here as a rush and thought to us, we can see for ourselves what has happened in these 10 years. pardon me, are officially left ukraine and joined to the russian federation in march of 2014, after over a whopping 96 percent of the population voted to do so in the historic referendum. it's a come as little surprise since both ukrainian and russian statistics show that russians have long made up the main demographic group on the peninsula as lot of airport and mentioned in his 2014 cry me a speech. many of the seeds of chaos were song decades before. like when former soviet general secretary, nikita khrushchev arbitrarily transferred crimea from russia to ukraine. it became clear the russian presidents that in action would be a betrayal of his own people. simple, somebody,

those who resisted the push were immediately threatened with reprisals and punitive measures. and the 1st in line was of course, crimea, prussian speaking crimea. that's when the residents of crime you and say we're still flu, appealed to russia to protect their rights and their lives. of course we could not fail to respond to this request. we could not leave premier and its people in trouble. otherwise, it was simply be a betrayal. it was necessary to help create conditions for a peaceful, free expression of will, so that the crime means could determine their own faith for the 1st time in history . but even after cried me a return to its motherland, struggles continued to persist, light keeps blockade of nearly 90. percent of the provincial is clean water supply . presidents lensky, who thinks crime. he actually wants to come back to ukraine, was making jokes about the water situation back in 2015. pick up, what was the speech of the 1st to you? what time you're going to pick out?

what was the teachers the notes of good. oh my god. what what then there were the blackouts that would run for months on end, caused by kia backed extreme is to sabotage to power lines running to crimea. it was only have to rush it was able to commission to new power plants, but the energy problem was solved in 2019. the whole country helped us in the shortest possible time and energy bridge and new power plants were built, as well as an upgrade to the existing power generation facilities today. for the 1st time in history, cry me not only has ceased to be a region experiencing power shortages,

but can also supply surfaces of electricity outside its territory if necessary. there were new sanctions as well that the west targeted specifically a crimea, but that didn't stop countries like italy, greece and france from continuing to cooperate with the peninsula. on top of that, the republic is heading towards its 2nd presidential election in russia with a new generation and have young people heading to the polls. so the since 20 fold same political activities in crimea has appeared because before 2014, there was no use political agenda on the peninsula. only up to the cabinet. part of the russian federation did young people in crimea actively begin to be interested in politics or mentors began to appear, assist, and in garden young people. i think it is the duty of every citizen to vote and every vote isn't pull, attends from the crime in us. hold the same opinion. i see only a positive direction for the development of pry me and i use as i am representative

of use. i think the tour is mode develop very actively and try me as well as the republic is. there was a miniature, you can find every thing here. despite pressure from the west war violence, sanctions, democracy today is alive and well and crimea, just as it was in 2014 to mr. slootsky has been in politics for 3 decades. more recently, he was also a member of the russian delegation of the assembled peace talks with ukraine that was back in the spring of 2022. and earlier today, he headed down to a musket upholding stations. the cost is on balance, making him only the 2nd of the full candidates who have voted so far. he then pumped into our special election studio to speak to me about the current selection process and the future of the russian federation. sugs to dyslexic of sanctions and restrictions of which more than 18000 have been imposed by the west against russia to date have failed. and our national economy and social policy are strengthening

the world. politics of the new century can only be multi polar, were every arbitrarily small country, its people, history, culture, traditions, religion. national language will become a separate decision making center in this multi polar, safe and stable world architecture of the 21st century, which is already being formed. it is today, it is in these years. and russia has become the center of gravity in the formation of this new world architecture. this new global majority. we all miss vladimir wolf, of which is you ever know, escape the man who founded perhaps the most creative political party in modern russia. a man who really knew how to look into the future with the power of his intellect. a completely unique person during his lifetime, inscribed his name in golden letters in the history of russia. and this is recognized by his supporters and his opponents. i'm his successor, and i don't want to create some kind of p,

r for myself on purpose. those who believe in the l d p are in our party. they know me and my popularity has grown. but i feel uncomfortable saying this about myself. as far as you re north ski, his holy name will always remain and not only with our party, it will remain as the name of the person who put forward strategic ideas for the development of russia. of the found on the long time leader of the liberal democratic party, letting me do it and i'll keep passed away. 2 years ago you had a very long and bright career. he stood as parties candidate for the presidency in every single election since the soviet times are good enough. he was also pretty famous for being a rather outspoken, but also rather explosive. if he had a lot of rhetoric to say, you also had a habit of making predictions, some of which eventually turned out to be no less than prophetic. the just the, the video is what's the,

what's going on. and it says, you're, you know, the superintendent soon does not know how much the 1st part of your book, i mean done something like that. but as a general was no need to rattle your weapons. you have to say, let's do it. you refuse to then we can adopt another problem. and you will know what that entails at for you. on the 22nd of february, i would like 2022 to be nice. but i love the truth. telling the truth was 75 years . it will not be it will be a year and the one rush will find out what didn't come a great country. the

claim was, they go to those, those nations. i don't see crime, he has already returned their song. nicolai's zipper argue with guns. petrov park of augusta must return population. there is russian. it's never had anything to do with the the, the, the,

the we don't usually start. so with numbers, you must do it. we need to take into account the situation in the middle east by 2024 events will unfold that will make everyone forget about it. that's where the most terrible is on. the do not find me. it has been the and so from russia is far east all the way to the western region of colored ink rad

. so many russians have been going to the polls to vote for the 2024 russians presidential election. in fact, over the past 2 days of buzzing now, 66000000 russians have cost that votes, at least, does not even include all the votes made online as well. so from one of i say it was said frankly, the drawing of trust specialist coverage here with our lovely studio in the heart of most go with a beautiful comment in the backdrop of special action coverage will continue here. and i'll see you in the for, to have you with us here and i'll see international coming your way. next option was times the with the latest episode of going on the ground of the boxes on the

i'm option or times the welcome back to going underground, broadcasting all around the world, from the u. a, as the largest country on the target of a brutal proxy war through ukraine, heads to the poles, to elect the president. i mean, it's near totalitarian, 90 russian propaganda in western europe. we're coverage of nazis and ukraine is band. it is allowing me to put in who is expected to have had a good war. and when a 5th presidential term in the kremlin, today, a decade to the day that the people of crimea overwhelmingly voted to rejoin russia . i'm joined from las go by the full, my director of the now defunct carnegie most go center. that was the rushing on with the controversial one thinking base content entitlement for international piece. he's also are tied connell in the soviet and russian on forces. and he's now

a member of russia's foreign and defense policy council, dr. dimitri training. thank you so much, dr. training for coming on. today's also the anniversary, the my lai massacre in vietnam, but i don't think they donation that propaganda. media are going to be talking about $6000000.00 dead in indo china. it'll actually be claiming on the 2nd day of voting there in russia, it will be claiming pigeon is a dictator. and is that the question or is the question, why is the so popular on the 2nd day of voting? well, i think he is a genuine lady of someone who is popular i, i don't think is, is the right word under the circumstances. i think that uh for the vast majority of russians, he is the right man at the right time in the right job. and they want him to stay in the job and call it support call at the popular the.