Poroshenko says DPR, LPR elections jeopardize peace process in east Ukraine - spokesman
KYIV. Oct 28 (Interfax) - Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko is convinced that the elections in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR, respectively) on November 2 undermine the peace process in the Donbas region, said his spokesman Svyatoslav Tsegolko.
"The president's position with respect to the pseudo-elections that terrorists are going to conduct and that will never be recognized by the civilized world - these pseudo-elections announced by the so-called DPR and LPR for early November not only have nothing in common with the Minsk Protocol of September 5, 2014, but they also grossly contradict its letter and spirit. They put the entire peace process at risk," Tsegolko wrote on his Facebook page on Tuesday.