Donetsk regional council demands Kyiv remove troops from Donbas

15:55, 24.04.2014 1 min read

Deputies of the Donetsk regional council have demanded the Kyiv authorities stop forceful actions and remove armed formations from the region.

"If the current authorities are interested in preserving Ukraine, they are obliged to move resistance back to a political level. The Kyiv authorities should not just hear but comply with the demands posed by an emergency meeting of all-level deputies of the Donetsk region," Donetsk deputies said in a statement passed at the regional council meeting on Thursday.

"We also demand the authorities stop immediately any forceful actions regarding Donbas, return the Ukrainian Armed Forces to their bases and ban sending any illegal armed formations to the Donetsk regions," the document said.