The UK strongly condemned the holding of elections of the president of the Russian Federation in temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine and deemed them illegal, states the UK’s Permanent Representative to the OSCE, Neil Holland. During a meeting of the Permanent Council of the organization in Vienna on Thursday, March 14, the diplomat reminded that Russia’s aggression began in 2014 when it illegally annexed Crimea. Now, according to him, Russia has been trying to seize new territories since the beginning of its full-scale invasion two years ago. “Now, in the regions of Ukraine it claims t…