As of 04:00 PM, the turnout in the early parliamentary election throughout Ukraine makes 40.6%. In particular, in central oblasts (Vinnytsia, Zhitomyr, Cherkasy, Kyiv, Kirovohrad,  Chernihiv, Sumy oblasts, and Kyiv city) the voter turnout is 43,9%; in the West of the country (Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia, Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Volyn, and Chernivtsi oblasts) – 46,1%, while in the East (Donetsk, Kharkiv, Luhansk, and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts) – 32,6%, and in the South (Odesa, Khers...

The voting is being held in a regular mode, without significant abuses or planned wide-scale violations which can influence election results. Despite the number of violations reported (according to statistics) is low, tendencies that appeared in first voting hours are still there as of 4:00 PM.

  As of 12:00 PM, observers of the Civil Network OPORA reported some procedural violations that cannot be characterized as planned or systematic.   

Blank protocols, unstamped control sheets in the ballot boxes, and photocopying of ballot papers at the ED #27.

The four voters from Donetsk city came under the fire from Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) militants. The incident was reported to the observers of the joint monitoring campaign of DOO of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine and Civil Network OPORA by the Donetsk city inhabitants.

The Network OPORA observers have reported several incidents of voters trying to carry ballot papers out of the voting premises.

  As a candidate for People’s Deputy reports, the buses with the candidate Mykola Onul’s people travel around the city while the other candidate Stanislav Berezkin makes announcements on provocations with “titushki”.  

Mass-scale violations concerning the incidents of larger than permitted by the Law number of the ballot papers reported at the special PECs of the #133 DEC.