KIEV: Russian-backed rebels fighting against Kiev on Tuesday announced a plan to create a new “state” they said would take the place of Ukraine and have its capital in their territory.
Ukraine’s pro-Western authorities immediately ridiculed the idea as a Kremlin project that they would never allow to get off the ground.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in turn called the plan the “personal initiative” of rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko and said that “Moscow learnt about it this morning from media”, in comments to Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
The separatists said the proposed country would be founded after a referendum and called Malorossiya, …read more
Source: theSun
