January 17, 2018

KIEV -- Ukrainian parliamentarians did not give their backing on Wednesday to the amendment on cutting diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation to the bill on the reintegration of Donbass, with 72 parliamentarians voting in favor of it, way below the required minimum of 226 votes.

The amendment was earlier declined by the parliament’s relevant committee. "The committee declined this amendment, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry must make up its mind on the issue," said Ivan Vinnik, secretary of the committee for national security and defense from the Pyotr Poroshenko Bloc faction.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Ukrainian parliament is giving a second riding to the bill "On the peculiarities of state policy on the restoration of the state sovereignty of Ukraine over the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine." At the present moment, more than 600 amendments have been considered, but none of them has received the backing of the parliament, including an amendment on recognizing as terrorist organizations the Donbass republics not under Kiev’s control.

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