Separatist leaders in Eastern Ukraine have accused Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko of "causing serious damage" to the peace process by suspending a law which gives separatist regions a "special status".
But the Ukrainian President has said he had no choice but to ask parliament to suspend the law, after rebels in the self-proclaimed peoples' republics of Donetsk and Luhansk carried out elections which "jeopardized the peace process".
Mr Poroshenko has now deployed troops to key cities in the east in case of a new separatist offensive.
Jake Rashbass reports.
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