⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 — Pro-Kremlin United Russia Secures Record Supermajority in Parliamentary Elections Denounced as Sham by Western Allies, — TIME.

​➡️ Russia’s Central Election Commission announced preliminary results showing that the ruling United Russia party is projected to win 355 seats in the 450-seat State Duma, expanding its supermajority following a three-day vote widely criticized as an illusion of choice. The election—the first parliamentary poll since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine—included balloting across illegally annexed Ukrainian territories, while antiwar alternatives like the Yabloko party were barred from participating. The Kremlin hailed the outcome as a high level of societal consolidation, whereas Western powers, including a joint statement from the UK, Canada, France, and EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, condemned the vote as a violation of international law and a severe setback for Russian democracy.

​➡️ Analysts and experts warn that the expanded majority will likely embolden President Vladimir Putin’s administration to pursue harsher domestic sacrifices, potentially laying the political groundwork for a new troop mobilization campaign and further military spending at the expense of civilian sectors. Meanwhile, the election coincided with massive aerial escalations, including what Moscow officials reported as the largest-ever Ukrainian drone attack on the capital, which targeted and damaged a local oil refinery while Russian forces intercepted over 1,600 drones nationwide.

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