US ‘has no right to criticize’ elections in Luhansk, Donetsk
A former CIA contractor says the United States “has no right to criticize” the elections that are being held in eastern Ukraine, or NovoRussia, early next month.
The pro-Russia forces in Ukraine’s Luhansk and Donetsk regions will go to the polls on November 2 to elect their leaders and parliamentarians.
“The US State Department has no right to criticize the elections that are going on in the NovoRussia, which should never be referred to as eastern Ukraine again because of the genocide being committed to them by the insane Nazi junta government in Kyiv,” Steven D. Kelley told Press TV on Wednesday.
“The United States has a record of supporting elections in occupied countries, such as in Iraq, which certainly be a good example of an illegitimate election,” he added.
“The people in eastern Ukraine, or NovoRussia (Novorossiya), certainly have been subjected to a genocide that would make it impossible for them to ever rejoin the criminals that the United States is supporting in the Kyiv junta,” Kelley noted.
“So they have every right to take care of their own personal matters. And I think as winter comes that the Kyiv junta is going to be in dire straits. At this point, they need to do everything they can make some sort of peace [move] so that they don’t freeze,” he stated. “But the people of NovoRussia certainly are very courageous, and they deserve to be free.”
The elections came amid ongoing fighting between the Ukrainian army and pro-Russia forces in the volatile east.
Ukraine’s mainly Russian-speaking regions in the east have been the scene of deadly clashes between pro-Russia protesters and the Ukrainian army since the government in Kyiv launched military operations in mid-April in a bid to crush the protests.
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