Putin consolidates grip as 49 Ukraine war veterans elected to Russian parliament
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United Russia won a preliminary record 355 of 450 Duma seats in widely criticised elections, the first since Russia's 2022 invasion. Officials said 49 war veterans were elected, revising an earlier estimate of 86 from party secretary Vladimir Yakushev, surpassing the 2016 record of 343 and strengthening Vladimir Putin's grip. Western governments called votes in occupied Ukraine a sham; Russia's supreme court had barred anti-war party Yabloko from the ballot.
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