Pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine

U.S. vice president warns Russia to honor commitments

WASHINGTON -- Joseph Biden warned Russia over Ukraine "after new columns of tanks, trucks and heavy artillery rumbled towards the pro-Moscow rebel stronghold of Donetsk."

BELGRADE/KIEV - Serbian Ambassador in Kiev Rade Bulatovic was summoned to the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) over two Serbian MPs' visit during the recent elections in Donbass that Kiev does not recognize.

Serbian ambassador summoned by Ukrainian MFA

BELGRADE -- The Serbian ambassador in Kiev has been summoned to the Ukrainian Foreign Minister over the visit of two Serbian MPs to the Donbass region.

Two MPs from Serbia's ruling Progressive Party are in hot water for monitoring separatist elections in eastern Ukraine.

Following opposition accusations about their actions in parliament, Progressive Party MP Zoran Babic said the two MPs went to the separatist headquarters of Donetsk as citizens and not as representatives of the Serbian parliament.

MP who traveled to Donetsk "answers only to his wife"

BELGRADE -- A deputy from the ranks of the ruling Progressives (SNS) who was an observer during Sunday's elections in Donbass says he went there as a private citizen....

Ruling party MPs served as observers in Donbass

BELGRADE -- Opposition Democratic Party (DS) official Borislav Stefanović says he wants to know why two MPs from the ruling SNS party served as observers in Ukraine.

"Special status" bill in danger of being scrapped

LUGANSK -- Officials of the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Lugansk are not concerned about Petro Poroshenko's intention to scrap a law on their special status.

The law would have given that status to the region of Donetsk and Lugansk.

Romania's Foreign Ministry (MAE) is not recognising 'the so-called elections' of November 2 organised by representatives of the separatist forces of the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, which it sees as integrant and inseparable parts of a sovereign Ukraine, MAE reports in a press release issued on Monday.

Russia on Nov. 3 called on Ukraine to halt its military offensive against pro-Moscow rebels in the east, saying the insurgent leaders had enough "authority" to hold talks with Kiev.
      
Deputy foreign minister Grigory Karasin made the appeal after Moscow recognised separatist elections in two eastern Ukraine regions dismissed as illegal by Kiev and the West.
      

Bulgaria does not accept presidential and parliamentary elections held on Sunday in Ukraine's Donbass as legitimate, Foreign Ministry officials say.

Genoveva Chervenakova, who heads the institution's press service, told the Bulgarian National Radio the vote was not in line with international law.