A proposal to ask Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognise two breakaway east Ukraine regions as independent will not be ready for discussion by the relevant parliamentary committee until next week.
MOSCOW - A proposal to ask Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognise two breakaway east Ukraine regions as independent will not be ready for discussion by the relevant parliamentary committee until next week, the committee's head told Reuters on Monday.
A source in the Duma, parliament's lower house, said its speaker would hold consultations with party leaders this week on the motion. RIA news agency quoted another Communist deputy as saying the draft would be discussed "in February". The Duma Council, which decides when votes should take place, is next scheduled to meet on Feb. 7.
Recognising the breakaway Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states would kill off the already struggling peace process and could provide Putin with a pretext to send troops into those regions to "protect" them."The only interest for Russia to make such a move would be the scenario of war in Ukraine," said Igor Delanoe, deputy director of the French-Russian Analytical Center Observo, based in Moscow.
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