On Monday evening, 11 September, the spokesperson for the European External Action Service (EEAS) warned that the European Union did not recognise the elections (and in particular the election of the governor) which were held in Sevastopol, Crimea, on Sunday 10 September alongside regional and local elections in the Russian Federation. By-elections also took place for the city and for the parliamentary assembly of Sevastopol.
"The European Union has not recognised the illegal annexation...