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Putin-linked businessman admits to US election meddling

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In U.S. elections on Monday Kremlin-connected entrepreneur Yevgeny Prigozhin admitted that he had interfered and would continue to do so, for the first time confirming the accusations that he has rejected for years. “As we know how to do”, Carefully, precisely, surgically and in our own way, in remarks posted on social media Prigozhin boasted. “We have interfered, are interfering and will interfere, Gentlemen.  The statement said “Putin’s chef,” to earn him the nickname, came on the eve of the U.S. midterm elections, from the press service of his catering company. It was the second major admission, who has ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, in recent months by the 61-year-old businessman.  Under the radar Prigozhin has previously sought to keep his activities and now appears increasingly interested in gaining political clout although his goal in doing so was not immediately clear. On Monday White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Prigozhin’s comments “do not...

Ukraine cities amid Kremlin-staged vote Russian forces shell

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  In Ukrainian cities it took place to create a pretext for their annexation by Moscow Russian forces launched new strikes in occupied regions of Ukraine as Kremlin-orchestrated votes. The latest Russian shelling killed at least three people and wounded 19, Ukraine’s presidential office said. A Russian missile hit an apartment building in the city of Zaporizhzhia, killing one person and injuring seven others, the Ukrainian governor of Zaporizhzhia, Oleksandr Starukh, on joining Russia said one of the regions where Moscow-installed officials organized referendums. In the south Kherson and Zaporizhzhia that began Friday and in the eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions in the five-day voting, and, election officials accompanied set up mobile polling stations, by police officers carrying ballots to homes citing safety reasons. When balloting will be held on Tuesday the votes are set to wrap up at polling stations. The referendums have no legal force both Ukraine and its Western allies sa...