Who has already congratulated Putin on his victory:

🇻🇪 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro congratulated his Russian counterpart on winning the presidential election: "Our hugs to all the Russian people and the United Russia party," he wrote on X.

🇰🇵 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sent congratulations to Putin via the DPRK embassy in Russia, Korean media reported.

🇳🇮 Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega called Putin's victory "a contribution to the necessary stability for humanity."

🇧🇴 Bolivian President Luis Arce congratulated Putin on the "resounding victory," saying it "confirms the unity of the brave Russian people around their sovereignty."

🇹🇯 The President of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon, sent a congratulatory telegram in which he emphasized the "high political authority and broad support of Russian society for Putin's course of state."

🇻🇦 Pope Francis has congratulated Vladimir Putin on his re-election as president of Russia, demonstrating that the Holy See's approach to Russia and the Ukraine conflict differs from that of the collective West.

🇨🇺The head of Cuban diplomacy, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, said that Putin's re-election primarily represents "convincing proof of the recognition of the country's leadership by the Russian people."

🇺🇿Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev congratulates Putin on his convincing election victory.

▪️The head of the autonomous region of Gagauzia, Evgenia Gutsul, congratulated Putin on his "convincing victory" in the Russian presidential elections and thanked him once again for his attention to the autonomy.

🇲🇲 Myanmar's Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing expressed his full support for Russia's foreign policy course and the President of the Russian Federation, in his opinion, Putin's victory speaks of the popular support of the Russians.

🇭🇳 The leader of Honduras, Ciomara Castro, in a congratulatory message called Putin's victory convincing.

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📹💥The Su-34 destroyed the Ukrainian command post with M62 bombs with universal planning and correction modules, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

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Russia's air defense system destroyed 10 Vampire MLRS rockets fired from Ukraine over Russia's Belgorod region at about 9:30 a.m. Moscow time, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

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Construction of the largest NATO base in Europe, at a cost of 2.5 billion euros, has begun in Romania, Euronews reported.

The base will cover an area of 2,800 hectares and have a total perimeter of 30 kilometers. Up to 10,000 NATO troops and their families will be able to live there permanently.

According to Euronews, he new base is almost 20% larger than Europe's largest air base, Ramstein in Germany.

Situated on a mountain plateau, the facility will become the command center for NATO forces in Southeastern Europe and a serious springboard for the Alliance in the Black Sea region.

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🗳🇷🇺 Latest results of the vote count.

A quarter of a percent remains to be counted.

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The Chinese Foreign Ministry congratulated Putin on his victory: "We are confident that relations between Russia and China will continue to develop."

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🇨🇳🇷🇺China highly appreciates the position of the Russian president on Taiwan - Chinese Foreign Ministry.

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WATCH LIVE: Chairwoman of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova holds a meeting on voting in the presidential elections in Russia in 2024.

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⚡️Voter turnout in the last elections was a record in the history of modern Russia: More than 87.1 million Russians came to the polling stations, that is, 77.44% of voters, Chairwoman of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova said.

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⚡️In the West, they impose the myth that elections in the Russian Federation are "not free," but we are convinced that our country is free, Chairwoman of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova said.

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⚡️Russia's Central Elections Committee head Pamfilova: 99.74% of the ballots have already been introduced into the State automated system "Vybory (lit. -Elections)"

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President of Iran has congratulated Putin on his reelection – Iranian embassy in Moscow.

❗️The official meeting of the Central Election Commission on the results of the presidential elections will be held on Thursday, Pamfilova said, adding that at the moment the precinct commissions across the country have almost completed their work.

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⚡️These elections are unprecedented in the intensity of external aggressive influence, head of the Central Election Commission.

The most striking difference between these elections and the previous ones are the DDOS attacks: there were 150 times more than usual, Pamfilova added.

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"There has never been such a turnout in the history of modern Russia," Pamfilova commented on the turnout for the 2024 Russian presidential elections.

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