KYIV. Sept 7 (Interfax) - Ukraine or the global community will not recognize elections "on the temporarily occupied territories" in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.
"If fake 'early elections' are conducted, their outcome will be legally void, they will not create any legal consequences and will not be recognized by Ukraine or the global community," the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued on Friday evening.
Earlier on Friday, it was reported that elections in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's republics had been scheduled for November 11.
In the meantime, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry linked the "so-called early elections" in the DPR and the LPR to Moscow's actions and said that "such actions by the Kremlin massively violate the obligations of the Russian Federation as a party to the Minsk agreements."
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that these "prevocational actions by Russia deliberately undermine the Minsk agreements and will be capable of reducing to nothing the international efforts to settle the situation that arose as a result of the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and the occupation by it of part of the sovereign territory of the Ukrainian state."
Kyiv put on Moscow all blame for "the constant blocking and torpedoing of the peace settlement process."
"We are calling on our international partners to give a clear evaluation to such actions by the Kremlin and increase the political and diplomatic pressure on the Russian Federation, including by imposing additional sanctions against it to make it go back to fulfilling the obligations it assumed," the statement said.
The ministry said Ukraine remains committed to the peaceful settlement of the situation in Donbas on the basis of the Minsk agreements.