DONETSK, Ukraine: Separatists in eastern Ukraine voted yesterday in controversial, Russian-backed leadership elections that Kiev and the West have refused to recognise and which threatened to deepen an international crisis over the conflict.The elections in the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic and Lugansk People’s Republic – based around the two main rebel-held cities – were billed as bringing a degree of legitimacy to the makeshift military regimes that already control them.“I hope that our votes will change something. Perhaps we will finally be recognised as a real, independent country,” Tatyana Ivanovna, 65, said as she waited to cast her ballot in …read more
Source: The Borneo Post
