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Voting has begun in 'historic elections in most of Ukraine:
Ukrainians are voting in parliamentary elections expected to put the country on a pro-Western path in an event President Petro Poroshenko has called "historic."
Polls opened at 8 a.m. local time and close at 8 p.m.
Addressing Ukrainians ahead of election day, Poroshenko said the vote completes the "transfer of power" that began when pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted after massive opposition protests in February.
Poroshenko called on voters to elect a parliament that is "reforming, not corrupt, pro-Ukrainian and pro-European, not pro-Soviet."
Some 36.5 million voters are registered, but more than 4 million are located in parts of the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions controlled by pro-Russian separatists who have banned the vote.
Poll officials say 15 out of 32 district election commissions in those two regions will not be operating.
As a result, 27 seats in the 450-seat parliament will be left vacant.
The president's Petro Poroshenko Bloc has topped opinion polls as the most popular in Ukraine and is likely to garner the most seats in the unicameral legislature.
The People's Front, the new party of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and other government officials, is also expected to enter parliament along with some nationalist parties, including the Radical Party led by ultranationalist Oleh Lyashko.
He said on October 24 that his party was "going to parliament to carry out radical reforms, to radically change the situation."
For the first time since Ukraine became independent after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party is not expected to enter parliament.
Neither is the pro-Russian Party of Regions, which dominated the parliament just 10 months ago.
Many supporters of the Party of Regions are expected to vote for the new Opposition Bloc, which many members of the Party of Regions joined after deserting Yanukovych's former party.
Polls show a majority of Ukrainians support economic and democratic reforms -- especially a crackdown on corruption -- leading eventually to membership in the European Union.
But the conflict in eastern Ukraine has cast a shadow over the elections.
A cease-fire signed in September has ended much of the fighting, but daily violations of the truce in several places continue to cause casualties among government forces, the rebels, and civilians.
A Ukrainian military spokesman said 10 soldiers had been injured in fighting, despite the cease-fire, since October 24.
More than 3,700 people have been killed in the conflict and hundreds of thousands of others have fled their homes.
Many of those people are living in other parts of Ukraine but are not registered to vote in those new places of residence.
Leaders of the pro-Russian insurgents in Donetsk and Luhansk have said they will hold elections to their so-called "people's republics" on November 2 to elect separate parliaments.
Kyiv, the United States, and several other countries have said the elections are illegitimate and will not be recognized.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's Central Election Commission said on October 25 that its website had come under cyberattack, but denied Russian media reports that the electronic vote-counting system was inoperable.
The commission said it had prepared beforehand for the denial-of-service attack on its website. (AP, AFP, Interfax)
The Eastern city of Slavyansk votes, from "Novosti Donbassa"
Ukrainian soldiers voting in the East.