08:30
25.5.2014
Just a reminder: Voting will run for 12 hours until 1900 CET. Exit polls shortly thereafter should give a good indication of the result, although official preliminary results are not expected until May 26.
08:36
25.5.2014
From the "Kyiv Post":
Andriy Magera, deputy head of the Central Election Commission, said there were long lines in Kyiv's polling stations because each of the voters is getting four ballots for three different elections – the presidential election, the mayoral election and two ballots for the city council election. He wrote on his Facebook page that, combined with lack of experience of officials at polling stations, that has complicated the voting process.
Andriy Magera, deputy head of the Central Election Commission, said there were long lines in Kyiv's polling stations because each of the voters is getting four ballots for three different elections – the presidential election, the mayoral election and two ballots for the city council election. He wrote on his Facebook page that, combined with lack of experience of officials at polling stations, that has complicated the voting process.
08:42
25.5.2014
08:44
25.5.2014
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has criticized the separatists stopping the voting in eastern Ukraine:
08:48
25.5.2014
More on the exit polls from the "Kyiv Post":
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.
08:59
25.5.2014
Little update from Luhansk. The head of the country's Central Election Commission, Mikhail Okhendovsky, told reporters that only two of the 12 polling districts were holding elections.
09:00
25.5.2014
09:03
25.5.2014
Our Ukrainian Service has this video of a closed polling station in Donetsk:
09:08
25.5.2014
Contrast the scene in Donetsk with polls opening in Kharkiv:
And in Rivne:
And in Rivne:
09:11
25.5.2014