Foreign Minister Klimkin excluded the possibility of holding elections in the Donbas
Even if all the security arrangements are fulfilled, elections will not be held in the so-called “grey zones,” which have been occupied by Donetsk and Luhansk separatists since September 2014. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin, explained the matter on the Channel 24 TV program Levyi Bereg with Sonya Koshkina on the 27th of October, 2016.
"Even if we hold the elections according to all security conditions in all the gray zones that were occupied after September, 2014, the elections will be not held anyway. They will be grey not only from the point of view of control but in terms of policy as well,” Klimkin said.
The Minister noted that the elections cannot take place within Debaltseve because the settlement is not included in the boundaries established in September, 2014.
As previously reported, the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) postponed municipal elections indefinitely.