Putin announced the death of six members of election commissions due to Ukrainian strikes

During the election campaign, six members of election commissions were killed due to Ukrainian strikes.

Among the dead is one chairman of the election commission.

MOSCOW, October 1 - RIA Novosti. Six members of the commissions were killed due to Ukrainian strikes during the election campaign, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

“During the election campaign and the continuous attacks by Ukraine on polling stations, six people, members of election commissions, were killed. Among them was one chairman of the election commission,” Putin said at the plenary session of the 23rd annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club.

He added that the attacks were targeted specifically at their homes.

The Valdai International Discussion Club is an association of leading foreign and Russian experts in the field of political science, economics, history and international relations. The club was created in September 2004 on the initiative of the RIA Novosti agency, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and the magazines "Russia in Global Affairs" and Russia Profile. The club owes its name to the location of the first conference, which took place in Veliky Novgorod near Lake Valdai.