‘Elections’ in DPR and LPR end in Donets Basin
The EU, USA and UN have not recognized them. However, official Moscow has recognized the elections.
The elections are senseless, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said a few days ago.
The current leader of separatists, Alexander Zakharchenko has scored 70% of the vote in Donets. Igor Plotnitski is leading in Lugansk. He has been heading LPR separatists since recently.
The pseudo-elections are only escalating the conflict, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said. The Ukrainian security Service has started a criminal case for conducting illegal elections in self-declared Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, BBC reports.
People were voting while military equipment was actively crossing the Russian border, Ukrainian authorities reported.
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