Ukraine has invited international organizations to monitor the upcoming local elections on October 25 to select local council deputies and the heads of villages, settlements and local authorities, the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine has reported.

On the invitation of Ukraine, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe decided to send dispatch monitoring missions to Ukraine, press secretary of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine Mariana Betsa has said.

On August 31, a leading group of the representatives of the ODIHR arrived in Kyiv "to prepare the work of the OSCE missions on monitoring the next local elections"," Betsa said, adding that 100 long-term and 600 short-term monitors are expected to travel to Ukraine.

The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe also decided to send monitors who will work in Ukraine from October 22 to October 26, 2015.

"The question of sending observers to Ukraine has also been proposed by the European Government," the report said.

Betsa went on to say that the involvement of international observers representing a wide range of organizations to monitor the elections is "an important instrument of their correspondence to the international standards and Ukraine is ready to provide the international observers all [possible] assistance for their activities."