Ukraine’s parliament voted on Tuesday to offer limited self-rule to pro-Russian rebels in the east to try to preserve Western support for peace efforts, despite some deputies saying it would give separatists more scope to tighten their grip on the region.
The law granting “special status” to “people’s republics” proclaimed by the separatists was a follow-up to a peace agreement worked out in Belarus last month. Western governments say the Minsk agreement is still the best opportunity for a lasting settlement to a conflict in which more than 6,000 people have been killed.
But Kiev’s insistence that the law should come into …read more
Source: Daily News & Analysis
