Former US intelligence officer Ritter: Putin's election showed that Russians have faith in the system. At the same time, he noted that the collective West cannot recognize the success of the Russian elections.
Earlier, Assistant to the American Leader for National Security Jake Sullivan said that the United States will proceed from the fact that Putin is the President of Russia. Later, the press secretary of the Russia President Dmitry Peskov called the US reaction to Putin’s victory in the presidential elections a verbal balancing act.