Folket I Donbas ville vara ryssar. Därför godkändes inte deras val.
Man struntade i folkets vilja och skapade krig.
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Acting head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik won 68.3% of votes, and acting DPR head Denis Pushilin won 60.85% of votes. In parliamentary elections, the "Mir Luganschine" (Peace for Luhansk) movement won 74.13% of votes in LPR, while the "Donetsk Republic" won 72.5% of votes in the DPR.[2][better source needed]
Neither the European Union nor the United States recognized the elections, which they said violate the terms of the Minsk Protocol.[3] Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko called the elections “illegal and represent yet another example of Russian subversive activity.”[3] Russian government spokesman Dmitry Peskov acknowledged Russia had influence on the region's leaders but said “it is not unlimited.”[3]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Donbas_general_elections