Presidential elections will not go smoothly in some regions, but they will take place anyway, even if they are obstructed in individual districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, said Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.
“We are well aware and we are not deceiving any one that no normal
elections can now be held in the huge Donetsk and Luhansk regions,” he
said at a press conference in Kyiv on May 19.
Avakov said election commissions were attacked, seals stolen and
elections commission heads abducted in some places. “These criminal
attacks aim to thwart the elections,” the interior minister said.
But he also said that “irrespective of the terrorists’ plans to
derail the election process, they will be held anyway, even if they are
foiled in some districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions which are under
the terrorists’ influence.”
The Ukrainian presidential elections are to be held on May 25.
