TASS Russian news agency

❕Key takeaways from by the Russian Defense Ministry's briefing on the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attempts to disrupt the State Duma elections:
 
▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted a massive UAV and Flamingo missile strike on September 19–20 to disrupt the expression of Russian citizens' will during the elections
 
▪️Air defense systems intercepted all Flamingo missiles as they approached civilian infrastructure in the Moscow region
 
▪️The Kiev regime’s attempted mass strike on Moscow completely failed, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces failed to reach their targets
 
▪️Effective military operations resulted in the downing of 1,951 UAVs and 8 cruise missiles over the past 24 hours, with one missile crashing in an uninhabited area
 
▪️In response to Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attacks on civilian infrastructure, the Russian Armed Forces will intensify strikes against military installations in Kiev

Alternative for Germany (AfD) has snatched victory from the Social Democrats (SPD) in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state election, ARD exit polls show.

The AfD is leading the vote with around 37%. Meanwhile, Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) crashed to just 5.5%, marking the worst result for the conservatives in postwar history.

▶️ Russian forces hit a tanker in the port of Chernomorsk with two Geran-4 Seeker drones. The tanker was used to deliver military supplies, the Defense Ministry said.

Video: Russian Defense Ministry/TASS

📷 Scenic views of Valaam Island

Photo: Sergey Bulkin/TASS

Voter turnout in this year's State Duma elections has exceeded the figures from 1993, 2016, and 2021, TASS calculations show.

Central Election Commission data as of 06:04 p.m. Moscow time puts the current turnout at 54.96%. Final turnout for the inaugural State Duma elections in 1993 reached 54.81%, making the current figure 0.15 percentage points higher.

The current turnout had already cleared the benchmarks set during the 2016 and 2021 election campaigns.

📷 The single voting day in Russian cities

Photos: Yury Smityuk/Alexey Konovalov/Kirill Kukhmar/Sergey Malgavko/TASS