Petr Poroshenko, a candidate for president of Ukraine, said at the Taras Shevchenko National University in Lugansk that force was the only way to talk with terrorists fighting for a referendum. His idea reiterates the words of another candidate Yulia Tymoshenko said in Donetsk.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that the processes in Ukraine casted doubts on the elections set for May 25
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden promised to provide all the necessary support to make the elections open and transparent, according to Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Vitaly Yarema. He predicted that Russia would not recognize the elections results and added that its opinion was inferior to the EU, U.S. and the civilized world.
Yuri Lutsenko, an advisor of the Ukrainian acting president, proposed single-round elections which would be harder to disrupt.
Dmitry Kiselev, director general of Russia Today, told Vestnik Kavkaza that all the declarations were made to justify the elections organized in the state of a civil war was not a farce. He said that Ukraine had lost its sovereignty and it would be unclear what a new president would be in charge of. Kiselev called the events in Ukraine a tragedy for Russia and expressed hope that the situation would normalize.
