Michail Bryachak, a State Duma deputy and an observer from party A JUST RUSSIA at the elections in DPR and LPR commented on the elections in Donbas:

As the members of the delegation made up of representatives from different countries, OSCE and the EuroParliament, we travel through the Lugansk region, and now we’re in the city of Antratsit. There is an incredible activity in the city polls: people are lining up to take part in the elections. In the poll where we are now, 7.5 thousand people out of 16 thousand of those who got their ballots have already cast their votes. According to the forecasts, the voting turnout will be over 80%, approaching 90%.

We did not see any violation of the election conduct in the polls, and no complaints were made to the election commission. A surprisingly high election turnout was the only election process difficulty as people had to line up and spend more time on election than it was planned.