Paint and petrol bomb attacks on election polls across Russia constitute ‘unprecedented’ uprising after Putin’s sham election

Polling stations across Russia have been hit by a wave of fire and paint attacks on the first day of Vladimir Putin’s mock election.

Several Russians have reportedly been arrested for vandalism after pouring dye into ballot boxes and throwing petrol bombs at voting booths.

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A woman was reportedly arrested in Moscow for pouring gallons of paint into a ballot box.

Footage appeared to show a woman sliding a ballot through the slot and then pouring green liquid over the contents of the transparent box.

Russian media reported that “a criminal case” had been opened against a woman who “poured paint into a ballot box.”

Putin, 71, does almost certain to win another six-year term in the presidential elections that started today and will last until Sunday.

But the Russians appear to be resisting certain victory at the polling booths, destroying people’s votes by pouring dye on them, setting fire to ballot boxes and setting off fireworks at polling stations.

The majority of the attacks have been reported in Moscow, Voronezh in the south Russiaand the Karachay-Cherkessia region in the North Caucasus, according to the state news Agency Bag.

Election authorities in St. Petersburg claimed a woman threw a petrol bomb near a polling station, causing a fire that was later extinguished.

In another protest, a woman reportedly set fire to a voting booth in Moscow.

She appeared in a video throwing flammable liquid over the booth and then setting it on fire while recording the act on her phone.

Meanwhile, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a polling station in St. Petersburg, local news site Fontanka reported.

Further footage showed a police officer desperately trying to extinguish a fire at a polling station – in an unknown location – as black smoke filled the room.

And voting soldiers have reportedly scrawled the name “Navalny” on their ballots in support of the late opposition leader – widely considered Putin’s fiercest enemy – Alexei Navalny.

The Russian opposition leader died under mysterious circumstances last month while serving a 19-year prison sentence on trumped-up charges.

Western leaders and members of his camp claim he was ‘killed’ on Putin’s direct orders.

A source claimed today that a commander removed the illegal votes for Navalny before the ballots were submitted for counting.

They said, “Ours army unity has already voted, just like everyone else in the army.

“I personally know men who have ruined their ballots [by writing Navalny across them].

“Today I found these ballots in our company commander’s bedside table.

“There are quite a few of us who want to finally get things back to normal in the country.

“The ****** problem is that the sniveling bosses won’t let us be heard.”

Some soldiers voted early, especially in World War II war zone – an arrangement open to abuse.

One video of Moscow showed soldiers being led to the polling station.

Also today it was reported that a middle-aged woman had emptied dye into a ballot box in Borisoglebsk, a city in Voronezh region.

There were reportedly three other cases of similar vote manipulation.

One woman allegedly poured the dye into a ballot box in Karachay-Cherkessia, while a 62-year-old man reportedly did the same in the village of Samarskoe.

Another woman is said to have poured the dye into a ballot box in occupied Crimea.

All demonstrators were arrested.

Russian news channel Mash reported: “All those detained for damaging ballots are now being monitored for cooperation with Ukrainian special services.”

Some have theorized that the protesters were persuaded to carry out the attacks by telephone scammers working for Ukrainian intelligence services.

Bosses reportedly demanded that their staff take and send photos of their marked ballots – to prove they had voted for Putin.

One woman said she complied and then checked another box, ruining her ballot.

Problems were also reported with the electronic remote voting systems in use today, as they became overloaded.

In Kursk And Rostov regions – bordering Ukraine – there were unconfirmed reports that disappearing ink pens were provided to voters, allowing ballots to be tampered with later.

A source quoted by the anti-war Telegram channel Sirena said: “The inscription disappears when heated, although the pen looks normal.

“They told everyone to keep quiet and only deliver these pens from the boxes they brought.”

The boxes bore the logo of the Central Election Commission, which some say is biased in favor of Putin.

A video purporting to show the alleged abuse did not show an actual ballot.

The three-day elections that started today are largely believed to be rigged to deliver a landslide victory for Putin.

There were several reports that state employees were ‘forced’ to vote for the Russian tyrant.

In the Urals, some were locked out of their offices in the cold and ordered to vote before being allowed to go to work.

While in Barnaul and elsewhere in the Altai region, surveillance cameras in polling stations – ostensibly to protect against fraud – were not working.

In the Khorsky settlement of the Khabarovsk region, a suspicious pile of ballots in a box was noticed, as if they had been thrown together.

And in Chukotka, voters in Russia’s easternmost region were given pancakes, which could be seen as an incentive to vote.

There were also claims of abuse in the distribution of ballots that allowed poll workers to visit residents’ homes to obtain their votes.

Exiled journalist Dmitry Kolezev, editor of Republic, said about the conduct of the Russian elections: “At 8 a.m. the polling stations are already full.

“Employees of the school, administration, local district gas And energy Sales had to vote before starting work, and they keep lists of those who voted.

‘Such control has never existed in recent years.

“There is a very clear commandment to the heads of organizations – so that all employees vote on Friday – a working day.

“So unfortunately the picture with both the turnout and the support is exactly what they need.”

Stanislav Andreichyuk, from the Golos Election Observation Organization, said: “The first day of voting has started and everything is going exactly as we warned.

“A large number of voters were under duress.”

There was reportedly a lack of independent observers and pressure not to conduct exit polls, which might have been used to gauge how people voted.

In Buryatia, workers from the Timlyui cement factory, dressed in overalls and helmets, gathered to vote at polling station No. 321 in the village of Kamensk.

After the vote, workers lined up with signs that read: “Cement workers are strong! Let’s vote Russia!”

The stunt appeared to be a show of orchestrated support for Putin.

Meanwhile, two anti-war candidates were barred from participating in the elections.

The three other candidates all support the war, although one, Vladislav Davankov, 40, of the New People’s Party, a Kremlin-choreographed group, supports negotiations to end the conflict.

Kremlin officials have reportedly decreed that Putin will win with about 80 percent of the vote.

Voting was today disrupted in the Belgorod border region amid new shelling and ‘thousands’ of civilians evacuating to safer areas.

The attack, in which a truck went up in flames in the middle of a residential street, led to the suspension of elections in the city of Belgorod, located 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Russia’s border with Ukraine.

Russian rebels have indicated yes their plan to disrupt Vladimir Putin’s sham elections It starts today and runs until Sunday.

New images appeared to show that pro-Ukrainian partisan paramilitary forces are now active in the border village of Kozinka.

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