Threat to eastern Ukraine elections

At least half of the election districts in eastern Ukraine have been unable to prepare for tomorrow’s presidential election, an official said today.

Volodymyr Hrinyak, chief of the public security department at the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, said today, in comments carried by the Interfax news agency, that 17 out of 34 district election commissions in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions are not operating because their offices have either been seized or blocked by armed men.