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ELECTIONS cannot take place in Ukraine’s Donbass region until it is granted special status by the Kiev government in line with a peace treaty between the two sides, the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) insisted today.
DPR Foreign Minister Natalia Nikonorova said Kiev was refusing to abide by the 2015 Minsk Agreement, which provided for a decentralisation of power to the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Both declared independence from Ukraine following the 2013-14 Euromaidan coup, when a protest movement backed by the European Union and the United States ousted president Viktor Yanukovych after he had rejected an EU trade deal.
The federal government’s plans to finance the war in Ukraine with Russian assets, and a possible deployment of German troops, put the population in Germany in the highest danger, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
