Donetsk Peoples’ Republic and Lugansk People’s Republic have made a joint statement, announcing that their authorities have decided to postpone dates of local elections. Ukrainian authorities set previous dates of local elections for October 25. However, LPR announced that they arrange for the local election on November 1 and DPR arrange on October 18.
The fact shows that Russian government had fallen into a critical phase because of EU and America’s economic sanctions. If DPR and LPR hold the election, East Ukraine would have been controlled by Russian government practically. However, West side which is Europe gave an economic sanction toward Russia. As the result, Russia is cornered economically. Moreover, there occurred a drop in the price of crude oil. I think Russia had no choice but to let DPR and LPR postponed the election in order to détente the friction between west side and Russia. What we have to see in the problem is that Ukraine is a victim of all the conflict between EU and Russia. Ukraine have to think of the way to save citizens as well as domestic economics, because the ongoing situation would give a lot of burdens to Ukraine.