The Ukrainian Interior Ministry has established the identities of persons who acted as election monitors during the elections in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.
“The monitoring of the so-called elections was conducted by people who presented themselves as citizens of the United States, Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia, Greece, Austria and Italy. But in the estimate of experts, the self-imposed observers represented the most odious anti-democratic political forces in their countries,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Monday after publishing a list of 18 names.
Foreign citizens’ participation in “illegal processes” in territories temporarily not controlled by Kyiv is unacceptable and illegal, the ministry’s press service said.
A relevant report will be referred to the Ukrainian Security Service which is expected to give a legal assessment to these foreign citizens’ activities.
“The Interior Ministry also urged the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to declare these citizens personae non grate and to submit reports on their involvement in illegal activities in Ukraine to their governments,” the press service said.
The press center of the Ukrainian Security Service earlier reported that the foreign nationals who arrived to monitor the “pseudo-elections” in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics would be declared personae non gratae.
