On April 1, a day after Ukraine’s presidential election, the Russian state media outlet RIA Novosti published part of an interview with Russian Deputy Minister of the Foreign Affairs Grigory Karasin. He accused the Kyiv government of creating “explicit complexities” for voters and implied that the incumbent, President Petro Poroshenko, was trying to illegally influence the outcome of the election.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Polygraph: Russian official attacks Ukrainian elections, official observers disagree
A woman casts her ballot at a polling station in Kolonshchyna village Kyiv oblast during the presidential election on March 31, 2019.
