Putin performs in Red Square, celebrates alongside three rivals after being declared "Tsar"

2024-03-18 20:13:37Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Putin performs in Red Square, celebrates alongside three rivals after being
Putin performs in Red Square, celebrates alongside three rivals after being declared "Tsar"

With chants of "Russia!", "Russia!", thousands of citizens gathered in Moscow's Red Square to hear President Vladimir Putin's victory speech, cementing his hold on power by winning 87.28% of the vote. choice.

What stood out at the concert to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the annexation of Crimea and the success in the elections, was the alignment on both sides of Putin of his three rivals in the elections.

Leonid Slutsky, Nikolai Kharitonov and Vladislav Davankov sang the anthem together with Putin, while the Kremlin leader addressed the crowd with a patriotic speech, threatening the West.

"Returning to the homeland turned out to be more difficult, more tragic, but we succeeded and it is a great event in the history of our country," Putin said before singing the national anthem with the crowd.

Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014 after the intervention of special forces of the Russian army. In September 2022, Moscow announced the annexation of four more Ukrainian regions under partial Russian occupation: Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, Kherson and Zaporizhia in southern Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Russia's Central Election Commission predictably claimed a landslide victory for Putin in the election. With 100 percent of the votes counted, the commission said Putin had won 87.28 percent – ​​his highest figure in any of the previous four processes.

The election commission also claimed that in the Moscow-occupied Ukrainian regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, Putin won 88.12 percent and 92.95 percent of the vote, respectively.


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