Ukrainian Interior Ministry does not register serious violations on election day so far

Published Oct. 25, 2015 at 5:11 pm

A man examines his ballots as another leaves a pooling booth at a polling station in Kyiv on October 25, 2015, during Ukrainian local elections. Western-backed Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's fragile ruling coalition faced a major survival test in local elections swiftly marred by polls failing to open in the strategic port of Mariupol. A smooth vote and show of support for Poroshenko's unpopular austerity and anti-corruption measures could help his loosely-knit alliance gain momentum and keep the ex-Soviet republic on track to apply for EU membership by 2020. AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY

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The Ukrainian Interior Ministry has not registered any serious mass violations related to the electoral process so far.

‘At the moment, we do not see any serious violations connected to the elections,’ Deputy Interior Minister of Ukraine Serhiy Yarovy said at a briefing in Kyiv on Sunday.

He stressed that a number of various offenses have been registered, but none of them was serious and they were not very numerous.

However, it is too early to speak about the elections as the whole, as the process of vote counting may also be accompanied by various irregularities, Yarovy added.