In the first three hours, 17.52% of voters voted in the election of the President of Ukraine Photo from Twitter user @realUran In the first three hours, 17.52% of voters voted in the presidential election. Such data was published by the Central Election Commission of the country.

Billionaire Petro Poroshenko, who, according to the existential regulations, won the election of the President of Ukraine, promised to hold early elections to the Verkhovna Rada in 2014. The candidate said this at a briefing in his election headquarters, reports UNN. “The fact is that there is no coalition now, and now the country cannot afford the existence of parliament that blocks military decisions.

About 5 million ballots designed for voting in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions were stolen by unknown. About this, as reports "Liganovosti" , said the deputy head of the CEC of Ukraine Zhanna Usenko-Black. “Due to inappropriate protection, in particular, the premises of the district election commissions, such ballots, unfortunately, were not delivered to the relevant district election commissions due to gang actions of the separatists.

A shootout occurred in one of the sites in the Lugansk region: one person died and another was wounded. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the statement of the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Sergey Yarovoy. “There was a shootout, the so -called terrorists were detained, investigative actions are carried out with them ... One person is killed and one was wounded,” Yarova said. The incident stood in the city of Novoaydar.

Photo from the website of the Polska newspaper On Sunday, May 25, the former head of socialist Poland Wojciech Yaruzelsky died, the Wyborcza newspaper reports . July 6, he would be 91 years old. The general was a key figure in the history of Poland in the second half of the XX century.

According to preliminary data, the ec-regulations, billionaire Petro Poroshenko won the presidential election in the first round. It is reported by RIA Novosti . Poroshenko gained 55.9% of the vote. In second place was the leader of the Fatherland party Yulia Tymoshenko with 12.9% of the vote, the third was the leader of the Radical Party Oleg Lyashko, who gained 8%. The headquarters of the "Fatherland" has already stated that they were ready to recognize Poroshenko’s victory.

According to the data at 16:30 (17:30 Moscow time), 41.2% of voters voted in the election of the President of Ukraine. Data online is published on the website of the Central Election Commission of the country. The Volyn region became the leader in the number of voters, where the turnout has already exceeded 53%. The lowest in the Donetsk region is 9%. There, the vote is held in 9 electoral districts out of 22, and only 7 of them work in full.

The head coach of the Russian hockey team Oleg Znarok is disqualified for one match and will miss the final of the World Cup in Minsk. It is reported by RIA Novosti . The reason for the insurred disqualification was a threatening gesture addressed to his Swedish colleague Ricard Grenborg. The Russian coach entered into a skirmish with Swedish in the last minutes of the semifinal game between Russia and Sweden on May 24.

The Ukrainian military did not use mortars in the area where the Italian photographer-Stinger Andrea Rockkeli died. This was written on Facebook by the head of the Center for Military-Political Studies and the Information Resistance group Dmitry Tymchuk. “The nearest positions of the ATO forces in this area are on Mount Karachun.

The presidential election started in Ukraine. Polling stations opened at 8 in the morning (9 a.m. Moscow time) and will work until 8 pm (21:00 in Moscow). 21 candidates apply for the post of head of state. According to sociological surveys, the greatest chances of victory by Petro Poroshenko. His closest pursuer is called Yulia Tymoshenko. In a number of regions of Ukraine, the election is difficult.

The Ukrainian authorities released Lifenews journalists Oleg Sidyakin and Marat Saichenko. This was announced on Instagram by the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. The plane with correspondents of the Russian television channel flew from Kyiv to Grozny. “I am on behalf of the journalists, from all the inhabitants of Chechnya I want to express my gratitude to our national leader Vladimir Putin for the salvation of Sidyakin and Saichenko!

The head of the press service of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Elena Blokha, left her post in protest against the pressure that the DPR leadership provides for journalists in the region. The flea, who also holds the post of editor -in -chief of Donetsk, “Municipal Gazeta”, wrote on Facebook on May 25. “A number of events of the last week do not allow me to continue communication with the leadership of the DPR.

Armed people blocked the residence of the billionaire Rinat Akhmetov in Donetsk. This was reported by Donbass News . On May 25, pro -Russian activists held a rally in the city center against the elections of the President of Ukraine. After the rally, the crowd moved towards Akhmetov’s residence to take it storm. However, the assault did not take place, and the supporters of the DPR began negotiations with the protection.

Channel One spoke about a possible victory in the first round of the presidential election in Ukraine, the leader of the Right Sector Dmitry Yarosh. The corresponding plot, the record of which is available on YouTube, was shown in the program "Sunday time". The host Irada Zeynalova demonstrated on the screen a table, which, according to her, is a “strange picture”, which “appeared on the central server of the CEC of Ukraine a few minutes ago”.

Billionaire Rinat Akhmetov did not enter into negotiations with representatives of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. This was reported by Donbass News with reference to a representative of businessman Elena Dovzhenko. “This is officially, there are no negotiations,” Dovzhenko said. Earlier, the DPR Prime Minister Alexander Borodai said that Akhmetov representatives were transferred, the main of which is to start paying taxes to the budget of the self-proclaimed republic.