EXIT-Poll data: Poroshenko wins in the first round

Elections in Cosmach-a village in the Kosovo district of the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine/ Photo: Reuters/ Kacper Pempel

11:00 Donetsk Airport suspended work due to the appearance of armed supporters of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. “In the region of 3 o’clock in the morning, several dozen armed representatives of the Donetsk People’s Republic arrived in the territory of Donetsk Airport with the requirements for the withdrawal of the Ukrainian military guarding the internal perimeter of the airport. There were no shots and power confrontation, ”said Dmitry Kosinov, head of the press service of the airport.

10:00 CEC processed 41.49% of the protocols. Petro Poroshenko still leads with 54.1% of the vote. At the same time, 13.15%voted for Yulia Tymoshenko.

21:10 Polling stations completed the work. EXIT -Poll data: Petro Poroshenko - 55.9%of the vote, Yulia Tymoshenko - 12.9%, Oleg Lyashko - 8.0%, Anatoly Gritsenko - 6.3%, Sergey Tigipko - 4.7%, Mikhail Dobkin - 2.1%, Olga Bogomolets 1.9%.

21:00 members of the election commission in the Lugansk People’s Republic were shot for refusing to open a plot, RIA-News reports. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, one person is killed and one was wounded.

19:20 The Dona press service said that due to the complex socio-political situation, the elections in Avdeevka, Artyomovsk, Ugledar, and Gorlovka can be considered failed. Debaltseve. Dzerzhinsk, Donetsk, Druzhkovka, Enakievo, Zhdanovka, Kirovsky, Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk, Krasnaya Liman, Makeevka, Novogrodovka, Selidovo, Slavyansk, Snezhnom, Torez, Khartsyzsk, Shakhtyrsk, Yasinovataya, Artyomovsky, Konstantinovsky, Maryinsky, Slavic, mining, mining, miner, miner, miner Yasinovatsky districts.

17:30 According to the CEC of Ukraine, at 16:30 (17:30 Moscow time) 41.2% of voters voted in the elections.

17:00 armed people blocked the residence of the billionaire Rinat Akhmetov in Donetsk. On May 25, activists held a rally in the city center against the elections of the President of Ukraine. After the rally, the rally participants moved to the Akhmetov residence. The residence is on duty with armed supporters of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. Many have already left the place of events, but the remaining demands to conduct a “excursion” on the residence.

16:30 The self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) signed a document on the unification into a single state of Novorossia.

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14:00 made his choice the most likely candidate for the post of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. He stated that in the event of his victory, the first thing he would go to the Donbass.

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13:30 In the city of Dokuchaevsk in the Donetsk region, representatives of the Donetsk People’s Republic massively close the precinct election commissions.

11:00 Ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko voted in Dnepropetrovsk with her husband.

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10:00 Ukrainian media report that the elections did not begin in a number of cities in the east of the country. Elections in the region are held only in 2 of 12 constituencies. Many sites did not open, including in Donetsk. In Mariupol, 13 polling stations did not start work. In many Ukrainian cities, the mayor is chosen along with the president. The elections of the head of the city are also held in Kyiv, where the Favorite is the leader of the party, Vitaly Klitschko.

09:00 Elections in Ukraine started. On the night of May 25, on the website of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov, a message appeared that the hack of the information and analytical system "Elections" had occurred. However, a few hours later, on his Facebook page, Avakov denied the message, saying that his site was hacked. “These statements do not exist in nature - these are fakes, the placement of which is aimed at creating an information chaos and the breakdown of a normal elected process. The CEC works regularly. The elections have started and will take place, no matter how the enemies of Ukraine are trying to tear them off,” Avakov wrote. The head of the CEC of Ukraine Mikhail Okhendovsky said that the hacker attack on the system really was, but the problem was solved.

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