PACE calls on Russia “to stop military support to Donbass” The parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution which calls on Russia to stop the “military support to illegal armed groups” in the DNI and LC. PACE also urged Moscow to cease to recognize the passports of the Donetsk and Luhansk self-proclaimed republics. The Russian delegation refused to participate in the January session of the parliamentary Assembly. The parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) urged Russia “to stop financial and military support to armed groups in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions”. The corresponding resolution entitled “On the humanitarian consequences of the war in Ukraine” was published on the website of the Assembly. The author of the document was made by Lithuanian parliamentarian Egidijus Vareikis. It says that the Assembly is alarmed by the humanitarian situation in the war in Eastern Ukraine and the annexation of
