Ukraine’s foreign ministry has said that a proposal put forward by Czech president Milos Zeman, who suggested that the Ukrainian state should be decentralised, is “Russian propaganda”.
Emerging Europe: Kyiv says Czech proposal to decentralise Ukraine is Russian propaganda
A Russian-backed separatist guards a checkpoint in Stanytsia Luhanska, Luhansk region, on March 7, 2017, as an elderly couple passes into Ukraine-controlled territory.