UN, November 4. /TASS/. Russia has opposed a UN Security Council move to criticize elections held in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, with a senior official telling the United Nations a statement from the 15-member council is “inadequate”.

“There was a draft press statement which was inadequate. For this reason it was not adopted,” Alexey Zaitsev, the First Secretary for Russia's permanent envoy to the UN, told TASS, commenting on remarks by Ukraine U.N. Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev saying the proposed statement was blocked by Russia.

The Lithuanian-drafted text stated that the elections held on Sunday in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions run counter to the provisions of the Minsk peace agreement, reached in September.

“They tried to draft a statement last Friday and Saturday. They drafted this paper, but their will was blocked by Russia,” Ukrainian Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev said on Monday.

The November 2 elections of the Prime Minister and deputies of the People’s Assembly in self-proclaimed Donetsk brought victory to the incumbent Prime Minister, Alexander Zakharchenko, and the Donetsk Republic popular movement he stands at the head of.

In another self-proclaimed semi-state entity, the Luhansk People’s Republic, elections were won by the current Prime Minister, Igor Plotnitsky, and his Mir Luhanshchine (Peace for Luhanshchina) public movement.