Local police officers arrange passports during a ceremony to issue the first passports of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic to residents in Donetsk, Ukraine, March 16, 2016. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
BBC: Russia accepts passports issued by east Ukraine rebels
President Vladimir Putin has announced that Russia is temporarily recognising passports and other identity documents issued by the self-proclaimed rebel republics in eastern Ukraine.
Clashes between pro-Russian rebels and the Ukrainian army flared up again in recent weeks, leaving many dead.
Ukraine's President, Petro Poroshenko, condemned the decision to recognise separatist passports.
But Russia's foreign minister said it was a humanitarian decision.
Sergei Lavrov also announced that heavy military hardware would be withdrawn from the region, and said a ceasefire would come into force on Monday.
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2 comments:
I alway's find it "funny" which stories the American Exceptionalists comment on,
And which stories they ignore.
A "post West New World Order", silence,
Russia giving recognition to the DPR and LPR as "official Governments", silence.
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