烏克蘭東部反叛分子選出領導人

Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine say the acting prime minister of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic has won an election that Kyiv and the West have made clear they will not recognize.

Election officials said Monday that Alexander Zakharchenko received about 79 percent of Sunday's vote as part of the elections for leadership and legislative bodies in areas the separatists control in Ukraine's Luhansk and Donetsk regions.

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.

The EU's new foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, said Sunday that the bloc would not recognize the vote, which she called "a new obstacle on the path towards peace in Ukraine."烏克蘭東部親俄分離分子說，頓涅茨克人民共和國的代理總理贏得星期天的選舉。基輔和西方各國則表示不會承認選舉結果。

分離主義分子控制的烏克蘭盧甘斯克和頓涅茨克地區星期天舉行了領導人和議會選舉。所謂的頓涅茨克人民共和國的選舉官員星期一說，亞歷山大·扎哈爾琴科贏得79%的選票。

聯合國、歐盟和美國都表示，反叛分子的這次投票是非法的，它違反了烏克蘭憲法以及九月五日分離分子和烏克蘭政府達成的停火協議。

新任歐盟外交事務專員費代麗卡·莫蓋里尼星期天說，歐盟不承認此次選舉。她稱此次選舉是“通往烏克蘭和平之路上的一個新的障礙。”