Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on the EU and the world's biggest economies not to recognize Russia's upcoming parliamentary elections, which treat Crimea as Russian territory.
This month Russians will elect 450 lawmakers to parliament, for the first time since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. The U.N. does not recognize the Russian government in Crimea as legitimate and Ukraine has protested any moves or statements that treat Russia’s authority on Crimea as anything but an illegal occupation.
