Kiev and western powers refuse to recognise votes in Donetsk and Lugansk Peoples Republics, held amid continuing fightingPro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine hold controversial leadership elections on Sunday which Kiev and the west have refused to recognise and which threaten to deepen the international crisis over the conflict.Fighting raged across the region on the eve of the vote, with seven Ukrainian fighters killed and intensive shelling at the ruins of Donetsk airport, a key battleground between the rebels and government forces. … …read more
Source: The Guardian
