From RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, Members of the Ukrainian military cast ballots at a polling station in Kramatorsk in the country's parliamentary elections on October 26. In the city of Lviv, soldiers wounded in the conflict in the country's east voted from their hospital rooms, where election workers brought ballot boxes.
Our correspondent Tom Balmforth is in Kyiv, talking to voters:
President Poroshenko has returned to Kyiv to vote, after making a surprise trip to the Donbas region.
"I am voting for our future, for the European direction in Ukraine's development and for government renewal. I am convinced that we will have a new government, a new pro-European coalition and a new parliament," he told reporters, according to Interfax. "I hope I will manage to form a powerful pro-European coalition, a pro-Ukrainian democratic coalition. I do hope that the Ukrainian people will make a very responsible choice today,"
Election returns from polling stations will come in after midnight, said the head of Ukraine's Central Elections Commission.
"I think that starting with midnight or one A.M. we will start receiving reports about the records of the election commissions - first from the smaller polling stations where ballot-counting will end sooner than at medium and large polling stations," CEC Head Mykhailo Okhendovsky said at a briefing in Kyiv, according to Interfax.
Hromadske TV is reporting almost 20 percent turnout by 1:30 p.m. local time:
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk casts his ballot in Kyiv.
Via Reuters, a member of an election commission carries documents and a mobile ballot box as he walks to visit local residents during a parliamentary election in the village of Semyonovka near Slavyansk in Eastern Ukraine.
