Overview
- Voting continued on Sunday for the three-day State Duma elections with polls open across Russia and in Russian-held parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Crimea.
- Russia’s Central Election Commission said Moscow’s electronic voting system faced a ‘powerful, continuous’ cyberattack overnight but that the assaults were being repelled and the system was still operating.
- Russian authorities reported shooting down hundreds of Ukrainian drones over multiple regions and the Black Sea, and Moscow’s mayor said dozens of drones were intercepted en route to the capital.
- The Russian Defence Ministry said its forces struck two commercial vessels in the Black Sea with Geran‑4 loitering drones while Ukrainian officials reported heavy Russian missile and drone strikes that caused civilian deaths and infrastructure damage.
- Most anti-war candidates were barred or restricted before the vote, notably Yabloko’s federal list, leaving United Russia and other pro-Kremlin parties poised to dominate and drawing criticism from Western governments about the ballot’s legitimacy.