Deferral of “referendum” will not influence antiterrorist operation - Parubiy

Possible deferral of the so-called referendum by separatists will not influence the antiterrorist operation.

National Security and Defense Council Secretary Andiry Parubiy has said about this at a briefing at the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center, a Ukrinform correspondent reports.

“The antiterrorist operation will continue irrespective of decisions of these or other groups of diversionists and terrorists, who are in Donetsk and Luhansk regions,” Parubiy has said, answering the journalists' question about whether the antiterrorist operation is suspended in case if the Donetsk People's Republic takes a decision today to defer the “referendum.”

At the same time, Parubiy noted that the “referendum” called by separatists is “illegal and has not any legal force.”