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“Given that de-facto the United States is a country deeply involved in the war in Ukraine. This is a country that is, in fact, at war with us,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Moscow also criticised the comments made by the White House questioning the validity of the Russian elections.
“The elections are obviously not free nor fair given how Mr. Putin has imprisoned political opponents and prevented others from running against him,” White House national security council spokesperson said.
Peskov dismissed the United States’ statements saying, “This is not an opinion that we are ready to listen to and that is even important to us.”
“We strongly disagree with this assessment from the United States,” he added.
The Kremlin spokesperson also came down heavily on critics of the elections in Russia, he slammed Yulia Navalnaya, Alexei Navalny’s widow, claiming that she ‘had lost touch with Russia.’
“There are a lot of people who have completely broken away from their homeland. The Yulia Navalnaya that you mentioned is moving more and more into this camp of people,” Peskov said.
Biggest landslide in post-Soviet Russian history
While Putin’s re-election was not in doubt given his grip over Russia and the absence of any real challengers, the former KGB spy intended to prove through polls that he had the overwhelming support of Russians.
Putin received 87.8% of the vote, the highest ever in Russia’s history since the Soviet Union, according to exit polls by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) and the Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (VCIOM). The first official results confirmed the accuracy of the polls.
The nationwide voter turnout reached 74.22% when the polls closed at 1800 GMT, surpassing the 2018 levels of 67.5%, as reported by election officials.
Ruslan Shaveddinov of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation stated, “Our victory is that we, the people, defeated fear, we defeated solitude – many people saw they were not alone.”
At Russian diplomatic missions worldwide, crowds gathered at polling stations, with Yulia Navalny, Alexei Navalny’s widow, appearing at the Russian embassy in Berlin to cheers and chants of “Yulia, Yulia” as noon arrived across Asia and Europe.
(With inputs from agencies)
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