Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Separatists in eastern Ukraine voted Sunday in controversial, Russian-backed leadership elections that Kiev branded a “power grab” and the West condemned.The elections in the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic and Lugansk People’s Republic — based around the two main rebel-held cities — were billed as bringing a degree of legitimacy to the makeshift military regimes that already control them.However, the polls deepened an international crisis over the conflict and further undercut an already teetering truce between Ukraine’s government and the heavily armed pro-Russian separatists.”I hope that our votes will change something. Perhaps we will finally be recognised …read more
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