Ukraine tries to present administrative reform as decentralization

Donetsk, July 2, the Donetsk News Agency

Kiev imitates provisioned by the Minsk Agreement decentralization of state power in Ukraine with the help of an administrative reform, claimed Chairman of the DPR People’s Council Andrey Purgin.

“Ukraine carries out an administrative reform in order to present it as decentralization. Instead of decentralization and federalization they carry out an administrative reform  – reshaping of administrative units, inclusion of settlements in composition of cities, — the Speaker of the DPR Parliament said. — We leave the administrative division as it was before the war”.

Purgin characterized Kiev’s attempts to replace decentralization with reforms of the above-described type as “sham”.