The proclaimed 87% [election result] affirms the regime and Putin's increasingly dictatorial course... The result does not reflect the will of the voters, but the will of the regime.
What we can already see is that Putin will continue waging war [against Ukraine], at an undiminished intensity, and possibly escalate the fighting... The war in Ukraine, after all, is expensive.
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