Yesterday at 19:23
The United States condemns Russia’s ongoing efforts to undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and political independence through sham elections held in the occupied Ukrainian territories.
The United States does not and will never recognize the legitimacy or results of these sham elections held in sovereign Ukraine as part of the “Russian presidential election”.
This was stated by US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller at a briefing.
“Of course, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Crimea are Ukraine. The results of these Potemkin-style exercises will be dictated by Moscow and cannot reflect the free will of the citizens of Ukraine who are forced to vote in them,” the US State Department spokesman said.
According to him, this spectacle only further demonstrates Russia’s blatant disregard for its obligations under international law.
In turn, the United States will continue to use all available tools to hold accountable those responsible for actions that undermine the sovereignty, territorial integrity, or political independence of free countries, including those who are observers at the Kremlin’s sham elections in the occupied parts of Ukraine.
The day before, the heads of the foreign affairs committees of 20 countries issued a joint statement rejecting the legitimacy of the Russian presidential “elections” held in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
This was announced by the chairman of the Lithuanian parliamentary committee on foreign affairs, Žygimantas Pavilionis, on social media platform X.
The joint statement was signed by the heads of committees from 20 countries – Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Germany, Moldova, Poland, Israel, the United States, Ireland, Italy, Iceland, Romania, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Spain and the United Kingdom.
The parliamentarians stressed that Russia had organised “elections” that coincided with the 10th anniversary of the illegal annexation of Crimea, “which is a clear provocation”.
