Ukraine: more autonomy for the regions of the east


Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko, made it through Parliament a law granting greater autonomy to cities in the east, controlled by pro-Russian separatists. A major advance under the Minsk agreements, loan details, these cities will organize transparent local elections, according to Ukrainian law.


A text that is not unanimity among the deputies in Kiev.


"They will elect people whose hands are covered with Ukrainian blood, railed Yulia Tymoshenko, a member of Batkivshchyna. Does anyone doubt that these elections will be fraudulent and that those who killed the Ukrainians, who mutilated our state will be elected? "She continued.


The pro-Russian completely rejected this law.


For the Ukrainian majority, the text was essential.


"The Ukrainian state, the president himself signed the Minsk agreements covering certain clauses, and we follow these clauses, said Serhiy Pashinskiy, his party Narodniy front. We demonstrate to the world and the aggressor that we are willing to find a peaceful solution. But elections will take place only when the legitimate Ukrainian authorities will be there "he said.


Tensions are still very vivid in the territories occupied by the pro-Russian. On Tuesday, a demonstration in honor of a deceased girl, hit by a Ukrainian armored in the east again stressed sometimes hostililté existing populations is against Kiev.






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