"It does not correspond with what the West is saying in different ways. First of all, Kherson, again, my impression is that it does not feel like an occupied region. People seem happy with their circumstances and where they're at. There's not many checkpoints. So that's at variance with what we're being told," one of the observers said.
"We continue to observe unprecedented activity both, at the polling stations and on the remote electronic voting platform. I think we are approaching 4 million voters," said Aleksandr Asafov, Deputy Chief of the Public Staff for Monitoring the Presidential Election.
"Everything is organized at a high level. Every citizen has the freedom to express their will. We are documenting this across all our monitoring posts," noted Mikhail Rusy, coordinator of an election observing team from the Interparliamentary Assembly at the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
