Key Level
- Russia’s authorities has known as an Australian embassy social media put up an interference in its inner affairs.
- Russia claims the Australian embassy put up questioned the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation.
- The Telegram put up on 19 March claimed Russia performed sham elections in Ukrainian territories.
Russian authorities say they’ve summoned a diplomat from the Australian embassy in Moscow over a social media put up that criticised the holding of Russian presidential elections in occupied elements of Ukraine.
Australia’s Chargé d’affaires was instructed the web put up was considered interfering within the nation’s inner affairs, the Russian assertion stated, demanding he take away the message and take measures to make sure such incidents don’t occur once more.
The put up continued: “Australia rejects the result of those sham elections and once more calls on Russia to right away withdraw from Ukraine’s internationally recognised territory.”
The Russian presidential election, which electoral authorities acknowledged President Vladimir Putin received with greater than 87 per cent of the vote, was performed in elements of Ukraine that Russia says it has annexed together with Crimea and elements of 4 areas it it seized after its 2022 invasion.