Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called an emergency meeting of his security chiefs for Nov. 4 to discuss new ways of dealing with the separatist challenge in the east after rebel elections that were denounced by Kyiv and the West.
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Alexander Zakharchenko (R), Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and presidential candidate, speaks to media during a press conference in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Nov. 2, 2014.