
Vladimir Putin celebrated with supporters in Moscow, the victory of the fifth term at the head of the Kremlin.
He promised that Russia would return to its 1945 borders, elections in Russia were criticized for being 'neither free nor fair'.
The wife of former Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on social networks that Putin is not the legitimate president of Russia.
Yulia Navalnaya asked the Western chancellors not to recognize Putin as president.
Meanwhile, a reaction to the presidential elections in Russia has also come from the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, who said that Putin deprived the Russians of free elections.
"The Kremlin has denied its citizens a transparent and free democratic process," said Blinken.
" They took place in a context of intense suppression of independent opposition voices and the imprisonment, death or exile of all genuine political opposition ," the US secretary added.
He continued that the US position is for a good future for Russia.
After the victory, Putin declared in front of his people that they are now more consolidated, but a possible conflict with NATO is not excluded and that this would inevitably lead to the Third World War.
Today, the high representative of the EU, Josep Borrell, said that the war in Ukraine will be decided this summer.
'This summer will be critical,' he says.
Russian authorities in the Belgorod border area have evacuated 9,000 children after ongoing Ukrainian attacks. Just last weekend, 16 people were killed and 98 were injured at a time when the presidential elections were also taking place.