Election officials at sharp end in separatist Ukraine city


  • World
  • Tuesday, 20 May 2014

A woman walks near signs displaying information about Ukrainian presidential candidates during preparations for the upcoming presidential election at the executive committee headquarters in the eastern Ukrainian city of Krasnoarmeisk in the Donetsk region, May 19, 2014. . REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev

DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - From a cramped office in residential Donetsk, election officials were frantically working on Sunday to prepare for Ukraine’s May 25 presidential poll, despite what they described as intimidation and threats from pro-Russian separatists.

By Monday morning, their resolve broken, they had shut down their office.

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