Eastern Ukraine votes in election condemned as illegal

Previous Donetsk Ballet

Western Ukraine had an election last week and eastern parts of Ukraine are voting today:

November 2, 2014

Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine began voting Sunday in controversial elections that Kyiv and the West say they will not recognize.

The separatists who control parts of eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk and Donetsk regions are holding elections for leadership and legislative bodies in the areas they control.

Meanwhile, the French news agency, AFP, reports that the Ukrainian military says there is “intensive” movement of troops and weapons from Russia into separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine where the voting is occurring.

Agence France-Presse said it witnessed a string of 20 trucks, some with anti-aircraft guns, heading toward the government-held airport in rebel-held Donetsk.

The election in eastern Ukraine comes a week after parliamentary elections were held throughout the remainder of Ukraine, with candidates favoring closer ties with other European countries winning a significant plurality of the seats. People living in the east did not vote in the October 26 balloting.

The United Nations, the European Union and the United States have called the rebel vote illegal, saying it violates Ukraine’s constitution and the cease-fire agreement reached September 5 between separatists and Ukraine’s government.

Russia has said it will recognize the results of the separatist elections. EU leaders have urged Russia to ignore those results.

Western officials say the vote could further complicate efforts to end the crisis in eastern Ukraine, where pro-Moscow rebels want to join Russia. Even with the two-month-old cease-fire, there have been daily outbreaks of fighting in some parts of eastern Ukraine.

After casting his vote Sunday, Donetsk rebel chief Alexander Zakharchenko said if Kyiv would recognize the pro-Russian separatist region, an economic relationship could be normalized.

“If they recognize us [Donetsk People’s Republic] and return our lost land without a fight, then we will restore normal economic ties [with Ukraine] and will live like equal economic partners,” he said. http://www.voanews.com/content/ukraine/2504946.html

The last time the people of Donetsk voted, the West would not recognize their vote. And the Obama Administration already has said it will not recognize the result of this election. Of course, if those in eastern Ukraine vote to support Kiev or something like that, then I presume that the United Nations, United States, and various parts of the West would recognize the results.

As I have mentioned before, biblically, because of prophecies involving the Medes (Jeremiah 51:11-32), some of which are in Ukraine, and those in the “north and east” in Daniel 11:44, it would seem that Russia would be closer to at least parts of Ukraine (like some of the eastern portions of it) in the end than many realize. There is also a YouTube video available related to this titled Ukraine in Prophecy?

The situation in the eastern portion of Ukraine remains volatile. Kiev does not like it and many there wish to leave Ukraine.

Russia wants Ukraine and will take what it feels it can. An election gives the Russians something they can use to claim additional territory.

Vladimir Putin wants all of Ukraine in Russia’s upcoming Eurasian Union. At this moment, he has Crimea. Vladimir Putin may take steps to annex parts of eastern Ukraine because of today’s election or he may decide that the best tactic is to have them join his Eurasian Union.

Some in eastern Ukraine are horrified by all of this, but many are disillusioned with the West for not accepting their will shown through the ballot box. Some in western Ukraine are disillusioned with the West, while many hope that the European Union is the answer.

The Bible is clear that both the rising European power and final Russian led power will engage in war (Daniel 11:39-45; Jeremiah 51:11-32).

Neither Russia nor the European Union are the answer for what ails Ukraine. Those there need repentance and the Kingdom of God. But instead, most there will choose a way that will result in war. Many did so last week (see Western Ukraine votes to move towards European Union; shelling outside of Donetsk), and many are expected to do so today.

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