“We’ll burn you and hang the director” – separatists ready for elections in Donetsk and Artemovsk

Antonina Melnykova, head of the district election commission in Luhansk Oblast’s Lysychansk, doesn’t show her face to avoid being identified by separatists. (Photo:kyivpost.com)In Artemovsk, Donetsk region terrorists threatened to burn one of the schools and hang its director if the poling station in the building will open for presidential elections. The employees of the institution reported this to OstroV, inforesist.org reports.

According to them people in masks came to the management of the institution and openly threatened: “If elections take place here, we will burn you and hang the director”.

Similar case happened in Kuybishev area in Donetsk. There representatives of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” have also threatened to burn the polling station in case it opens on the elections day.

Employees of one of the trucking companies reported that they were visited by two men in masks and warned “If elections happen here, you will have Molotov cocktails.”