Russian presidential election: numerous incidents recorded around polling stations in several cities across the country. A bomb exploded without causing any casualties in front of a polling station in the occupied Kherson region in southern Ukraine.

A woman was arrested after setting fire to a voting booth in Moscow. The vote which runs from Friday to Sunday should see the master of the Kremlin reappointed for an additional mandate of six years. The outgoing president faces three candidates without scope who oppose neither the offensive in Ukraine nor the repression which has eradicated all opposition.