Ukraine war: No choice for Ukrainians - more Putin means more war - BBC News

Russia's leader is "sick with power", says Ukraine's president, whose country faces continued war.

52 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsWar in UkraineImage source, DSNSImage caption, Russia has bombarded Ukraine's north-eastern border region of Sumy 3,000 times this year, say officials, and that is likely to go onBy Sarah RainsfordEastern Europe correspondent, KyivWhen Ukrainians write about Russia's presidential "election" they put the word in quote marks.

The vote was entirely engineered, so people here were not holding their breath for the result.

The only unknown was how much support Vladimir Putin would claim, and even for him 87% was quite something.

But no-one in Ukraine was laughing.

Whatever the supposed result on paper, the meaning here is clear: more deadly missile attacks, more drones, more shelling. The full-scale invasion that Vladimir Putin ordered two years ago will go on.

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