Ukraine crisis deepens after rebel vote in east

Alexander Zakharchenko, separatist leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, holds his ballot papers before voting during its leadership and local parliamentary elections at a polling station in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine November 2, 2014. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev

KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called an emergency meeting of his security chiefs for Tuesday to discuss new ways of dealing with the separatist challenge in the east after rebel elections that were denounced by Kiev and the West.

The rogue votes, which Kiev says Russia encouraged, could create a new "frozen conflict" in post-Soviet Europe and further threaten the territorial unity of Ukraine, which lost control of its Crimean peninsula in March when it was annexed by Russia.