The leader of a rebel-held breakaway region in eastern Ukraine has announced a plan to abolish the country and replace it with the new state of “Malorossiya”, in the latest blow to faltering peace talks aimed at ending a more than three-year conflict.
Financial Times: Pro-Russia separatist leader unveils plan to abolish Ukraine
Russian nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin (L) sits next to Alexander Zakharchenko (R), leader of the Kremlin-led separatists in Donetsk Oblast, at the joint press-conference in Donetsk on June 21, 2016.
