Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – The leadership of Ukraines pro-Russian rebels is on course to secure a crushing victory at Sundays controversial election that Kiev branded a farce and which threatened to deepen an international crisis over the conflict.Alexander Zakharchenko — prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Peoples Republic — was estimated to get 81 percent of the presidential vote, according to a rebel exit poll released after the ballot ended.The election — along with another in the neighbouring rebel Lugansk region — has been backed by Russia and billed as a way of bringing a degree of legitimacy to the …read more
Source: Dunya TV
