AT 11:00 AM on 29 October, the military took equipment and documentation from the District Election Commission #52, located in the city of Dzherzhynsk, and left in an unknown direction. Some commission members went with the military. Such information was reported by observers of the Donetsk Oblast Office of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine and the Civil Network OPORA.

"An emergency situation occurred today. We heard explosions near the Dzherzhynsk in the morning. Shortly afterwards, DEC members were spreading talks that DPR can attack the city. At 11:00 AM, commission members took a decision to leave the DEC, justifying it by a safety situation. The military took all the documents and equipment, particularly server, into their car. They left in an unknown direction then, escorted by some commission members," — informed an observer.

According to witnesses, some of those commission members came back to the DEC at around 4:00 PM. The server is also in the DEC now. It should be mentioned, that the DEC confirmed that such incident had occurred, and members of DEC left the premises for some time. However, they couldn't confirm the fact that the documents and equipment was also taken out of the DEC.

Besides that, observer of the DOO CVU and the OPORA reported that some majoritarian candidates submitted complaints against actions of the DEC. "The candidates are extremely dissatisfied with the election results. According to them, they saw a lot of violations, which have significantly influenced the voting process," — stated the observer.

Contacts for the press:
Oleksandr Ivanov
press-secretary of the joint civic observation campaign
 
About civic observation during the elections:
Civic monitoring conducted by OPORA and AUNGO Committee of Voters of Ukraine in Donetsk - is a type of network activity, aimed at impartial assessment of the preparation and conduct of elections, as well as preventing electoral violations through comprehensive civic action.
Starting from September 2014, Civil Network OPORA conducts a large-scale observation of special parliamentary elections in Ukraine. The organization will attract 213 long-term observers in every region of Ukraine to monitor the campaign from its official start to announcement of the final election results. On the Election Day on May 26, more than 2,000 activists will join them to conduct statistically-based parallel vote tabulation.
In Donetsk oblast the civic observation of the Parliamentary election process is conducted by the oblast office of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine.