“I think it’s safe to say that there will be no congratulations from the United States,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Patel emphasized that the United States 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 the ballots, according to the CEC data.
Earlier, Deputy Representative of the German Cabinet of Ministers Christiane Hoffmann said that Germany does not consider the presidential elections in Russia to be legitimate and is not going to congratulate Vladimir Putin on his victory.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova noted acute phobias and memory lapses in the German Foreign Ministry against the backdrop of statements by German colleagues.