FILE PHOTO: A woman crosses a street past the campaign board of Leonid Pasechnik, acting head of the self-proclaimed separatist Luhansk People's Republic (LNR), ahead of the upcoming vote for a new leader in Luhansk, Ukraine November 9, 2018. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Rebel-controlled Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine hold leadership elections on Sunday in the shadow of a conflict that has killed more than 10,000 people and poisoned relations between Ukraine and Russia.
Ukraine and its international backers have lined up to condemn the vote as a sham manipulated by the Russian authorities and in violation of a 2015 Minsk ceasefire agreement. The United States urged voters to boycott.
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