OSCE sends 1,000 observers to monitor Ukraine election

NHK/Voice of Russia reported on May 23 that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said it would send about 1,000 observers to monitor the presidential election in Ukraine on May 25.

In addition, a delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the European Parliament (PACE) will also visit Ukraine from May 23-26 to monitor the early presidential election in this country.

Ukrainian soldiers at a base in the Donetsk region. (Source: AFP/VNA)

The PACE press service said the delegation of 40 observers is led by Swiss MP Andreas Gross. PACE observers will work at the Ukrainian presidential election polling stations.

Earlier on May 22, the OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine released a report on the situation in the country, saying that violent conflicts between armed separatists and Ukrainian government forces were escalating in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the east of the country.

Armed groups are trying to disrupt the activities of local election commissions with a plot to disrupt the election./.

According to VNA