Here's a video of the arrest of the Wookiee in Odesa. He was reportedly detained for "illegal campaigning." It seems to have taken at least four police officers to do it...
The former Georgian president, now Odesa governor, Mikheil Saakashvili has voted for the first time in Ukraine, and he rode a bike to the polling station.
"It is very important to go and vote either on a bike, or by foot, but a lot depends on the activity of each of you," he wrote on Facebook in Russian and Ukrainian.
Here's some election numbers, courtesy of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service:
132 political parties
83 Ukrainian NGOs monitoring the elections
14 international organizations monitoring the elections
1,500 international observers from 14 countries who have arrived in Ukraine for the elections
As regards the situation in Mariupol, Donbas News is reporting that President Petro Poroshenko has said he will ask Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, to set a new date for elections in the coastal city later this year.
"I expect a political assessment from the political forces and I appeal to the Verkhovna Rada and to the Central Election Commission to respond immediately to this," Poroshenko said. "The Verkhovna Rada should adopt changes to the legislation that will allow elections to be held in Mariupol in the near future."
Poroshenko added that the elections should be held before the end of 2015.
President Petro Poroshenko and his wife Maryna have voted. "We voted for Kyiv to be a truly European city!" Poroshenko tweeted along with the photo of the couple casting their ballots.