Ukraine Rebels Delay Local Election as Weapon Pullback Continues
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Pro-Russian insurgents who’ve established self-proclaimed separatist republics in Ukraine’s easternmost regions agreed to postpone local elections until next year under an agreement last week to meet more conditions of a February cease-fire.
The votes will be delayed until Feb. 21 if the government in Kiev fulfills all of its obligations under the truce accord signed in the Belarusian capital Minsk, rebel-controlled news website DAN reported. It cited a joint statement by the representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk republics Denis Pushilin and Vladislav Deynego.