The Governor of Dnipropetrovsk oblast and businessman Igor Kolomoisky believes that the self-proclaimed head of the Luhansk and Donetsk national republics Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Carpenter, as if to them or treated in Kiev, are the real power.
at rallies in early April 2014 do not recognise the legitimacy of the February coup in Ukraine, the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine proclaimed the development of a " people's republics ", which is held in may after the referendum declared sovereignty and later formed the Union of the " new Russia ". In Kiev DNR and LC do not recognize.
"But let's look at the circumstances on the other hand, from the" DND " and " LPR ". There were pseudo-elections, they won Zakharchenko and Carpentry. Today they have power There, captured, usurped, But it's power. Those who would have voted against them, they don't have that, They left, everyone who could, had already left. I have no confidence that if at the present time to hold elections according to the Ukrainian laws, the citizens did not vote for the members of the Carpenter ", - quotes the message Kolomoisky Television news service (TSN) Ukrainian.
He also clarified that the LC and the DNR " held ", as subjects of Ukraine.
"we have two subjects that we don't recognize is" DNR " and " LPR " - But held on, much to our regret. They exist. There are leaders, citizens that manage these subjects. Part of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions live somehow. There were 1, 5 - 2 million Ukrainian people, and somehow They survive in these conditions, " said Kolomoisky.
Kolomoyskiy finances battalions " Azov ", " Aidar ", " Donbass ", "Dnepr-1" and " Dnepr-2 ", against him in Russia prosecuted under the criminal code according to section " use of prohibited means and methods of warfare "." Aidar " belonged to the battalions of the territorial defence, which are formally submitted to the Ministry of defence of Ukraine.
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