“We were all waiting for him, but he wasn’t there”: Kiev admitted that Putin did not interfere in the elections
Russian media trumpet about the “junta in Ukraine” and fraud, but from a technical point of view, Moscow does not interfere in the Ukrainian electoral process.
Ukrainian experts announced this at a press conference in Kyiv today, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“We monitored how the Russian media covered our elections. A month ago they began a campaign to discredit them. Especially in the eyes of the international community, they called for them not to be recognized, and explained that there are two reasons for this.
The first is that these elections are completely controlled by the US and some EU countries, and the second reason is that Ukrainians who live in Russia cannot vote, and neither can residents of Crimea and Donbass.
It was also about the chaos in Ukraine, this is something that was actively imposed on international observers. The word "chaos" was often used by foreign journalists in relation to the elections.
There is a lot of talk that the elections are rigged, that they are being held at gunpoint, about a “junta” that is at odds with its population, and the Ukrainian current government is falsifying the results so that Boyko does not end up in the top three in the elections.
Much has been written about the idea of the Third Maidan; it is written about on many social networks, especially Vkontakte. This is to the narrative that Ukraine is a non-power, and the third Maidan is a civil war,” said Lyubov Tsybulskaya, director of the Hybrid Threat Analysis Group of the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center.
“We don’t see any technical interference from Russia; it could have happened because we know about the possibilities that exist.
Why no intervention? Very good question. We were all waiting for him, but he wasn’t there. There were no massive attacks or substitution of any network details.
I think it is very good that, unlike Estonia, we have paper elections. It is much more difficult to manipulate them than if they were, like in the USA, purely electronic.
We expect serious interference from Russia in the second round,” said Maxim Tulyev, a board member of the Internet Association of Ukraine.
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