As Russia kicked off its first day of voting in the Presidential Elections on Friday-Sunday, Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (HUR) said it is hacking online voting systems in Russia.
According to a source in the agency confirmed to Ukraine’s Kyiv Independent it was currently making attempts to disrupt the vote, adding; “There are no elections or democracy there anyway.”
The Russian president is up against three other contenders who all stand no realistic chance of winning.
President Vladimir Putin urged Russian citizens to vote to secure another six-year term.
The Kremlin says will show society is fully behind Moscow’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine.
“You realize what a difficult period our country is going through, what complex challenges we are facing on almost all fronts,” Putin said in an address to Russians on the eve of the vote.
“And to continue to respond to them with dignity and successfully overcome difficulties, we need to continue to be united and self-confident,” he added.
The Russian leader also emphasized that the vote will take place in four Ukrainian regions that Moscow claims to have annexed in September 2022, as well as in the Crimean peninsula, annexed in 2014.
“Our fighters at the front will also vote. They, showing courage and heroism, defend the Fatherland and, participating in the elections, set an example for all of us,” Putin said.
