Moscow (AFP) - Russia announced Tuesday it will recognise separatist polls in Ukraine next weekend, fuelling tensions with the country's newly elected pro-Western leaders as they negotiate on forming a coalition government.
The rebel elections on Sunday should "go ahead as agreed," and Russia will "recognise the results," Foreign Minist er Sergei Lavrov told the Izvestia daily.
Moscow rejects accusations in Kiev and Western capitals that it is behind the armed uprising in Ukraine's industrial heartland in which some 3,700 people have been killed since April. Read more
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