The United States will not demand that Kyiv hold elections in individual districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions until there is a full ceasefire, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt said in an interview published by the magazine Novoye Vremya on July 8.
The best Ukraine can do now is fulfill its part of the Minsk agreements and prove that it is not an impediment to that deal, the ambassador said, adding that Washington will not demand that Ukraine hold elections in the uncontrolled territories as long as Ukrainian soldiers are dying along the contact line.
Pyatt said the message was crystal clear: a full ceasefire must happen before elections.
