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Russia elections: Vladimir Putin seeks fifth term in tightly-controlled election - BBC News Russia elections: Vladimir Putin seeks fifth term in tightly-controlled election - BBC News
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Steve Rosenberg
BBC Russia editor
The first thing I notice at this
Moscow polling station is the official logo of the 2024 election: a large
letter “V”.
It’s on signs and posters all around here.
This particular Latin
letter also happens to be one of the symbols of Russia’s "special military operation": the war in Ukraine.
The portraits of the four candidates are up on the wall,
along with a few paragraphs of information on each of them.
There’s much more
written here about the three challengers than about Candidate Putin: mind you,
after nearly a quarter of a century in power, Vladimir Putin is already pretty
well known to Russian voters.
The other three candidates - Leonid Slutsky,
Nikolai Kharitonov and Vladislav Davankov - are all MPs from the
Kremlin-friendly parliament.
Russia’s defence ministry says its forces have destroyed dozens of drones in several regions across the country as the election continues.
The biggest attack has happened in the southern region of Krasnodar, where an oil refinery was targeted.
Vladimir Rogov, a Russian-installed leader in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, has said today that two Ukrainian drones attacked a polling station - setting the building on fire but causing no deaths or injuries.
In Ukraine, officials have reported new Russian air strikes on the port city of Odesa.
Krasnodar authorities also said earlier that 17 drones had been launched against the oil refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban and had been neutralised, but one sparked the fire as it fell.
You can read our full story on the drone attacks here.
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