Ukraine in Arabic | Ukrainian PM: We did not grant self-rules to Donbass
KYIV/Ukraine in Arabic/ A vote by Ukrainian MPs to grant self-rule to parts of two eastern regions has drawn criticism from both sides.
The leaders of two parties – former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and her counterpart in nationalist Svoboda – called it a ‘capitulation’.
Separatist rebels denounced it as ‘unacceptable’, falling short of independence.
The prime-minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that it doesn’t mint legalization of of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics.
"No one will allow the so-called DPR and LPR to be legalized, and this is my political position," the premier told the government on Wednesday, commenting on the bill regarding a special status for parts of the two regions passed on Tuesday.
The bill was necessary to establish peace, to prevent more deaths of Ukrainians, Yatsenyuk said.
While politics was being played out in the capital, in Donetsk in the east, the shaky ceasefire came under further strain.
One woman died after a mortar shell struck a bus and another three people were reported killed in the shelling of a service station.
Europe’s humanitarian and democracy watchdog the OSCE says both sides are violating the truce.