Sands: the Influence of Russia on the militia should not be exaggerated
Russia has limited influence over the militia and don't exaggerate, said the President's press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, explaining the appeal of the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine to Russia with a request to dissuade the authorities DND and LNR from voting in early November. " The reason to a priori not to recognize the elections in the Donbass, Russia has not. The election is a decision made by the leadership of these republics. These elections will take place, " said Peskov, quoted by Russian news service "." Russia has limited leverage and don't exaggerate. In this case, the main factor is not the influence of Russia, and decisions made by the leaders of these republics and their people, " said the spokesman. He noticed that as the elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Russia will observe the voting in Luhansk and Donetsk national republics. First Chapter the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin said that the Ukrainian authorities would spare no effort to prevent the Conduct scheduled for early November elections in Donetsk and Lugansk national republics. Before Klimkin said that the Russian authorities are obliged to dissuade guide LNR and DND from conducting their own elections. However, the official representative of the Russian foreign Ministry, Alexander Lukashevich, explaining such statements, said that Moscow will support the election procedures in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. The head of the EU foreign Ministers warned that they did not recognize the results of elections in the breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk republics.