Ukraine began voting on Sunday in a presidential election. The vote scheduled by the Ukrainian parliament following the February overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych comes amid deep political crisis and a large-scale military operation launched by the new Kiev authorities to crack down on protesters refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the government.
- About 19 violations have been registered during Sunday’s presidential polls in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry reports.
- Turnout in presidential election in Ukraine was 17.52 percent at 12 pm local time, the Central Electoral Commission says, TASS reports.
- The highest turnout in the presidential election marked in the Kiev region - 22.49 percent; the lowest recorded in Donetsk - 5.5 percent, TASS reports.
- Unknown called today to the election commission of Ukraine's Nikolayev and said that the six polling stations are mined, TASS reports. The information was not true.
- About two thousand of people are participating in a rally against Ukraine's snap presidential election in the center of Donetsk, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.
- About 360 violations recorded during the elections in Ukraine on Sunday, the UNN reports on Sunday, citing data from monitoring Ukrainian network "Opora".
- Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who is an observer of today's snap presidential elections in Ukraine, has visited one of the polling stations in the center of Kiev, TASS reports.
- Voting stations for the Ukrainian presidential poll opened Sunday in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, Ukraine's Acting Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has said.
- The OSCE Mission in Ukraine left Donetsk region for security reasons, where the Kiev forces are fighting with the self-defense, Reuters reports, citing a source in the OSCE mission.
- Fifty-three of 114 polling stations across the world have opened their doors to Ukrainian voters who are expected to elect a new president on Sunday, the country's Foreign Ministry reports.
- "The technical irregularities that were identified in the operation Elections system on May 22 were caused by a computer program, quite sophisticated, so sophisticated that it definitely could not have been developed by one person," he said at a briefing on Saturday.
- Chairman of Ukraine's Central Election Commission (CEC) Mykhail Okhendovsky has confirmed that there was a hacker attack on the CEC computer system on May 22.
- No polling stations have opened in the city of Donetsk, according to the regional press office.
- There will be two exit polls in the extraordinary presidential election in Ukraine on Sunday - the national exit poll and the all-Ukrainian TV exit poll, according to Interfax.
- 308 polling stations out of 2430 have been open in Donetsk region, the regional administration says, Interfax reports.
- 13 polling stations haven't opened in Mariupol, Donetsk region, according to the city site "0629."
- The preliminary results will be announced on Monday, May 26.
- Under a decision by the Constitutional Court, the next presidential election is due in March 2019.
- The new president will be elected for a five year term.
- Thirty-six million people are registered to vote.
- Ukrainians residing in Russia will be able to vote for president at six polling stations that will be open at the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow and Ukraine’s general consulates in St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg, Viktor Girzhov, the head of Ukraine’s Moscow-based election committee, told Itar-Tass.
- Ukrainians are going to the polls to elect a new president.
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