A number of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (ODIHR/OSCE) observers of the elections will stay Ukraine until November 29 in order to assess how the local elections will be held in Mariupol and Krasnoarmiysk.

The majority of members of the mission will leave Ukraine on November 29, head of the ODIHR/OSCE election monitoring mission Tana de Zulueta said at a press conference in Kyiv on Monday.

She recalled that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed the law on holding elections in Krasnoarmiysk and Mariupol and several members of the ODIHR/OSCE mission will stay to observe these elections.

De Zulueta also said that as the head of the mission she would also stay to observe the elections in these cities on November 29.

It was reported that, on November 10, Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada has endorsed the law on the peculiarities of voting at the elections of deputies in the Krasnoarmiysk city council in the Donetsk region, Krasnoarmiysk city head, Mariupol city head on October 25, 2015. The Ukrainian president signed it on November 14.

This law sets the voting in these local elections to elect deputies of these city councils and city heads which was disrupted on October 25 on Sunday, November 29.

The international monitoring mission over the local elections in Ukraine comprises of representatives of ODIHR/OSCE, the Council of Europe and the European Parliament. The mission consists of about 750 observes, including 675 short- and long-term ODIHR/OSCE observers, 57 observers from the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe and 12 - from the European Parliament. On the whole, the mission included observers from 44 countries.