The SSU has collected evidence against the head of russia’s central election commission, Ella Pamfilova, who is organising pseudo-elections in the temporarily occupied areas of Ukraine. According to available information, the kremlin is planning to hold the fake plebiscite in early September this year.

In this way, Pamfilova is assisting russia’s top military and political leadership in ‘legalizing’ the occupation regime in the temporarily occupied areas.

The commission head involved her deputy Nikolai Bulaev and the secretary Natalia Budarina in the unlawful activity.

According to the investigation, all three officials are fulfilling the kremlin’s task of creating an ‘external’ appearance of an ‘electoral process’ in the temporarily occupied districts of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.

To do this, they create occupation ‘territorial election committees’, engaging local traitors and collaborators.

The next task of the suspected ‘officials’ under Pamfilova’s leadership is to completely falsify the results of the pseudo-elections in favour of the puppet ‘candidates’ nominated by the kremlin.

To ‘draw’ the required number of ‘votes’, the commission’s leadership will use its ‘experience’ of organising fake plebiscites in the occupied part of Ukraine in 2022.

Then, Pamfilova together with her subordinates held sham referenda on the ‘accession’ of the seized territories to russia.

SSU investigators served Pamfilova and her two accomplices, Bulayev and Budarina, notices of suspicion under Article 110.3 of the CCU (encroachment on Ukraine’s territorial integrity and inviolability).

As the offenders are outside Ukraine, efforts are underway to bring them to justice.

The suspects are facing life imprisonment with confiscation of property.

The SSU is conducting the investigation under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor General’s Office.