Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Kęstutis Budrys has stated that the Russian occupiers' holding of illegal elections in the occupied territories of Ukraine is a gross violation of international law and Lithuania will never recognize them.
Russia’s State Duma so-called elections were neither free nor fair. Opposition silenced, independent voices suppressed, OSCE observers barred," he wrote on the social network X on Monday.
"Holding sham votes in occupied territories of Ukraine is a blatant violation of international law. We will never recognise these results," Budrys emphasized.
As reported, elections to the Russian State Duma took place on September 18-20. Their holding was also illegally organized in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
