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US, EU Call Election in Pro-Russian E. Ukraine a Sham

Voters in the Kremlin-backed Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine cast ballots Sunday for local government leaders in what Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called a "fake election." Denis Pushilin, the 37-year-old acting leader of Donetsk, was elected with over 61 percent of the vote with almost all ballots counted, according to the local electoral commission. Leonid Pasechnik, the acting leader of Luhansk, took 68 percent of the vote. The United States...

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