UN Secretary General António Guterres has criticized Russia for allowing voting in occupied Ukrainian territory in the ongoing Russian presidential election. “The secretary general condemns the efforts of the Russian Federation to hold its presidential elections in areas of Ukraine occupied by the Russian Federation,” his spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said in New York on Friday. “He recalls that the attempted illegal annexation of regions of Ukraine has no validity under international law.” “The United Nations remains steadfastly committed to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial …