White House: The US will assume that Putin is the president of Russia. Earlier, State Department Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel said that the United States does not plan to congratulate Russian President Vladimir Putin on his election victory.
According to him, the U.S. does not consider the presidential elections in Russia to be free or fair. The current President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, received 87.28% of the votes based on the results of processing 100% of ballots, according to the CEC data.