There's this:
and then this, from one on of the top pro-Kremlin hacks on Twitter.
"[the ultranationalist] Right Sector may not get into the Rada, but [it's leader] Yarosh, by all appearances will."
Comments from party leaders
-- According to Interfax, Yuriy Lutsenko, a leader of the Poroshenko bloc, has said that all "Maidan parties" will be invited to join his party's coalition.
-- Andriy Sadoviy, leader of the Samopomich party says his bloc faired well because "Ukrainians want changes, Ukrainians want reforms," according to Tass.
-- Yulia Tymoshenko has not comment on her party's results, according to Tass. Instead she said "The Batkivshchina party is ready to help the power the people will form by all possible means and resources."
Watch district vote too
It's worth keeping in mind, as we discuss exit polls, that 50 percent of Rada seats are based on proportional party lists and the other 50 percent are based on first-past-the-post district elections. This is where some wildcards are likely. In Dnipropetrovsk, for instance, Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh has likely won a seat, according to the deputy chairman of the regional administration. And in Mariupol, billionaire oligarch Serhiy Taruta, who was recently fired from his post as Donetsk governor by Poroshenko, seems likely to easily win a place in parliament.
Poroshenko hails vote
Poroshenko just spoke. Along with hailing the Western direction of Ukraine, he also noted that "for the first time in 96 years there will be no Communists" and Ukrainians delivered a decisive punch to a [pro-Russian] "fifth column."
Here's a roundup of today's events from our news desk
Exit polls suggest pro-Western parties will dominate Ukraine's parliament following snap elections on October 26.
President Petro Poroshenko called the early poll in a bid to set Ukraine on a new path eight months after pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted following opposition protests.
Poroshenko’s bloc is expected win the most seats, with Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's People's Front a close second.
Samopomich, a pro-European party based in western Ukraine, is seen in third.
Four other parties are expected to pass 5 percent threshold needed to enter the Verkhovna Rada: the Opposition Bloc, which was joined by many members of Yanukovych's Party of Regions, the Radical Party led by populist Oleh Lyashko, Svoboda, and Batkivshchina.
For the first time since Ukraine became independent, the Communist Party is not expected to enter parliament.
The voter turnout stood at nearly 40 percent at 1500 Prague time, four hours before polls closed.
Preliminary official results are expected on October 27.
About 5 million voters located in Crimea, annexed by Russia in March, and in separatist-controlled areas of the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk did not take part in the elections.
Poll officials said 15 out of 32 district election commissions in Luhansk and Donetsk would not be operating.
As a result, 27 seats in the 450-seat parliament will be left vacant.
After casting his ballot Kyiv, Poroshenko expressed hope he will be able to form "a powerful pro-European, pro-Ukrainian and democratic coalition."
Earlier, the president made a surprise election day visit to Kramatorsk.
Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels fought over the city in the country’s east during the last seven months, and is now under government control.
Prime Minister Yatsenyuk said a governing coalition will have to be formed "as quickly as possible" following the elections.
"This is to be a very pro-reform and pro-European, smart and even tough coalition. Because the new government, together with the new parliament, is to pass a number of austerity packages, and a number of reforms that are not easy for the people in a short-term perspective," Yatsenyuk said.
Lyashko described the elections as a "very important event in our lives."
"We have a unique opportunity for the first time to get a Ukrainian parliament, which would lead Ukraine to Europe and towards NATO."
Polls showed 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.
More than 3,700 people have been killed in the conflict and hundreds of thousands of others have fled their homes.
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.
Based on reporting by AP, AFP, and Interfax
Much of Donetsk and Luhansk unable to vote
It was a tough day for many voters in the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. Of Donetsk's 3.3 million residents only some 1.4 million had access to the polls.
Our Ukrainian Service reports about one incident in which a resident of separatist-controlled Donetsk and three of his friends, who were unaware voting had been forbidden, had attempted to go their traditional voting station.
"When we arrived there, a man was standing at the entrance and we asked him if we could vote," the prospective voter said. The man walked into the building and soon after "they fired on us with automatic weapons. We barely escaped, making it back to our cars just in time."
Earlier, the commander of the Aidar Batallion had said that members of his unit in the town of Schastya, located near the battlefront, were also unable to vote.