The Russian foreign ministry has accused Kyiv of sabotaging the weekend elections.
A local resident casts her vote into a mobile ballot box next to a security member during Russia's presidential election, in the basement of a destroyed apartment building in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in the town of Avdiivka in the Donetsk Region, Russian-controlled Ukraine on Mar 16, 2024.
The state-run TASS news agency quoted a local election official as reporting no damage nor injuries when the explosive device landed five or six metres from a building housing a polling station before it had opened in a village about 20km east of the city of Enerhodar.
On Sunday's final day of voting, supporters of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny have called on people to turn out en masse at noon in a rolling protest against Putin in each of the country's 11 time zones.At least 20 killed in Russian missile attack on Ukraine's Odesa Dmitry Azarov, governor of the Samara region 850km southeast of Moscow, said the Syzran refinery was on fire but an attack on a second refinery had been thwarted.
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