KIEV, June 11 – The order of leaders of self-proclaimed LPR (Luhansk People's Republic) on the nationalization of Luhansk oblspozhyvspilka is illegal and “legally illiterate, and is more evidence of the gangster-like character“ of the LPR leaders, Ukoopspilka, a group representing cooperative businesses, said on Monday.

"The legal status of cooperative business in all countries – from Moscow to London – is so that it belongs in equal shares to large groups of people and cooperative business could be destroyed, but it's impossible to nationalize it," Ukoopspilka said.