Central Election Commission views sabotage in Far East as attempt to disrupt elections

MOSCOW, September 19. /TASS/. Saboteurs’ cutting off communication lines in four regions of the Far East is an attempt to disrupt voting, Central Election Commission head Ella Pamfilova said at the commission’s information center.

"Today, early in the morning, a very powerful act of sabotage was carried out in the Far East. When the saboteurs sawed through the communication transmission pole and cut the cable, they left four large Russian regions of without connectivity," she said.

Rostelecom said earlier that the internet returned to normal within an hour.

"We regard the incident as a targeted act of sabotage and an attempt to disrupt the voting in the region," Pamfilova said.