Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Separatists in eastern Ukraine held elections Sunday as claims of “intensive” troop movements crossing the Russian border cast new doubts over a truce.The vote in the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic and Lugansk People’s Republic was condemned by Kiev and the West, but backed by Russia, billed as bringing a degree of legitimacy to pro-Russian authorities already in control of the two main rebel-held cities.However, the polls deepened an international crisis over the conflict and further undercut the teetering September 5 truce between Ukraine’s government and the heavily armed separatists.Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko blasted the ballot as …read more
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