Russian voters are casting ballots on Sunday for the third and final day of a legislative election also being held in Ukrainian territories occupied and annexed by Moscow.
The Russian president urged citizens to vote in large numbers in legislative elections scheduled for September 18-20, billed as the first since the start of the offensive in Ukraine.
Images presented as selfies of Vladimir Putin with world leaders at the recent BRICS summit were distributed by official accounts before being identified as AI-generated, according to France 24.
The Russian president also claimed that a threat from Moscow to Europe 'does not exist and never has existed,' while Volodymyr Zelensky called on Donald Trump to impose 'now' new sanctions against Russia.