President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he hoped Ukraine’s parliamentary poll, scheduled for October 26, would help restore stability in the country, saying that such a development would also be welcomed by Russia.
Relations between Moscow and Kyiv have been teetering on the brink since Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in March and has since been seen as having fomented and directly supported a separatist rebellion in the country’s east, a charge Moscow denies.
“I hope Ukraine’s parliamentary elections will be worthy and there will finally be long-awaited political stability,” Putin told VTB Capital “Russia Calling” investment forum in Moscow.
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Source: Voice of America
