The Obama Administration has condemned Russia-backed separatists in southeastern Ukraine for holding unauthorized elections and warned that the polls violated the fragile cease-fire deal signed by Kyiv and Moscow during a meeting in Minsk, Belarus, last September.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Time: The White House slams separatist elections in southeastern Ukraine
Pro-Russian militants stand guard at a polling station in Novoazovsk, in the eastern Ukrainian Donetsk Oblast on Nov. 2, 2014.
