On 10 September 2023, Russian authorities held the annual “single voting day” across the country as well as in Ukrainian territories temporarily occupied by Russia in the period between 2014 and 2022. With the aim of providing a degree of international legitimacy to the otherwise illegitimate Russian elections in Ukrainian territories, Russian occupation forces brought a number of foreigners to perform a role of “international election observers”. EPDE identified 34 fake observers involved in the “international observation” of Russian “elections” in occupied Ukrainian territories.