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| Russia's rebel vote support 'undermines' peace: Ukraine |
| 2014-10-29 |
| [ARABNEWS] Russia's announcement that it will recognize separatist elections in eastern Ukraine "undermines" attempts to end a six-month war there, a senior Ukrainian foreign ministry official said Tuesday. "Russia's intentions directly contradict the Minsk (peace) accord, undermine the agreed process on de-escalation and peaceful resolution, and continue to weaken trust in it (Russia) as a reliable international partner," the official, Dmytro Kuleba, said. Pro-Russian separatist rebels in the eastern Donbass region of Ukraine are holding the leadership election Sunday in an attempt to legitimize their de facto control of a swathe of territory. Earlier Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said "we expect the elections will go ahead as agreed, and we will of course recognize the results." President Petro Poroshenko's front man lashed out, saying that the rebel election "will never be recognized by the civilized world." The polls in the self-declared rebel republics "put the entire grinding of the peace processor under threat," front man Svyatoslav Tsegolko said. Moscow rejects accusations in Kiev and Western capitals that it is behind the armed uprising in Ukraine's industrial heartland in which some 3,700 people have been killed since April. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... the decision to lend legitimacy to the rebels' leadership vote was one of most overt acts of support so far for the two unrecognized "people's republics" that murderous Moslems are carving out in eastern Ukraine. Senior Ukrainian foreign ministry official Dmytro Kuleba said Moscow was violating the peace deal it had itself sponsored in the Belarussian capital Minsk on September 5, ushering in an uneasy truce. "Russia's intentions directly contradict the Minsk accord, undermine the agreed process on deescalation and peaceful resolution, and continue to weaken trust in it (Russia) as a reliable international partner," Kuleba said, calling the separatists "terrorists." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I'm glad that somebody opposes the global Tranzi Jihad. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-10-29 04:33 |