Drone Attacks Disrupt First Day of Voting in Southern Russia and Occupied Ukraine

Drone Attacks Disrupt First Day of Voting in Southern Russia and Occupied Ukraine

Ukrainian drone strikes disrupted the work of election workers at polling stations in southern Russia and parts of occupied Ukraine, Russian authorities said Friday, the first day of a three-day voting period for parliamentary and regional races. “There are small incidents I can’t fail to mention,” Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) chief Ella Pamfilova told reporters during a morning press conference. “In the Krasnodar region, one polling station had to be moved to an alternative location because the windows were broken due to damage from a drone.” Fourteen polling stations in the occupied Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine briefly lost power after drones damaged energy infrastructure, Pamfilova said, though the sites eventually switched to backup power supplies.