Ukraine's Poroshenko says won't recognise November's separatist election

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine and the rest of the world will not recognise local elections planned by pro-Russian separatists next month, President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday, adding that he hoped Russia would follow the same course.

Ukraine has proposed that local elections be held, under Kiev's direction, in December in areas of eastern Ukraine where separatists have set up 'people's republics', but the rebels say they want to hold their own elections in early November without intervention from Kiev.