DONETSK, November 1 (RIA Novosti) – Seventy observers from a number of European countries and the United States have arrived in Donetsk to monitor the upcoming elections, Novorossiya's Central Election Committee Representative Oleg Bondarenko said Saturday.
"Spain, Germany, France, Italy are represented," Bondarenko said at a press conference.
"Almost the entire political spectrum is displayed. Austria is represented by the right–wing politicians, Greece – by the left. Senator Jaroslav Doubrava came from the Czech Republic [to monitor the elections]," Bondarenko added.
The self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics are set to elect their regional leaders and legislative bodies on November 2.
The European Union and the United States, however, said earlier the elections would come against the Minsk agreement on the regulation of the crisis in Donbas, and that the international community would not recognize them.
On the contrary, Russia has expressed its intention to recognize the elections in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics, saying not doing so would run counter to the Minsk protocol and disrupt the progress toward finding a sustainable political solution to the conflict.
