Ondertussen wordt gepoogd de lokale verkiezingen op z'n minst te hinderen. Meerder zwaar bewapende subversieve groepen werden geneutraliseerd in de omgeving van Donetsk.
... Ukrainian authorities actively prevented the elections by blocking off traffic to the former Donetsk region. “All roads to the DPR territory have been blocked off by Ukrainian security forces,” he said. BRON