25 May, Election of the President of Ukraine was conducted fairly and in accordance with Ukrainian legislation and international standards. Parliament and the CEC have duly secured the organization of electoral process and conduction of voting on the election day. The voting was held on the whole Ukrainian territory (not including temporarily occupied territories of the AR Crimea and Sevastopol). However, the process was complicated due to unlawful activities of terroristic groups and armed p...

Elections in Ukraine were held in correspondence with the legislation and democratic standards. The result of vote count is fair, and no violations which could have influenced the final election result were detected. All candidates were provided equal opportunities. However, the campaigning was complicated in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and, therefore, it's difficult to say that is was absolutely free.

On 25 May, OPORA organized parallel vote tabulation, based on a representative and statistically-based sample. The sample included 1,500 polls, with a 2.9% margin of error.

  At 8pm, the voter turnout on special elections of the President of Ukraine was 60%. Thus, for example, in Central oblasts (Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Kirovohrad oblasts and Kyiv city) the voter turnout was 63%; Western oblasts (Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia, Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Volyn, and Chernivtsi oblasts) – 70%; in the East (Donetsk, Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, and Luhansk oblasts) - 48%; and South (Odesa, Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Zaporizhzhia obl...

As of 4:00 PM May 25 the observers of the Civil Network OPORA reported that the most widespread violations of the electoral procedures remain the attempts of the PEC members to issue the ballots to voter without checking their IDs and voters' attempts to vote without sufficient grounds. However, even these incidents are small in numbers and were reported only at 13,1% and 11,1% of polling stations accordingly.

Volyn oblast branch of the Civil Network OPORA appeals to the precinct and district election commissions and call them to fully comply the electoral legislation, namely to give the observers the copies of vote counting protocols.

During the Presidential elections in Donetsk oblast terrorist groups and unlawful paramilitary units deprived up to 81,8% form the general number of voters who live in the region of their right to vote. This information came from the observers of the joint monitoring campaign of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine and the Civil Network OPORA in Donetsk.

As of 12am, OPORA's observers have noticed that the most common violation of election procedures is attempt to issue ballot papers without passport verification by members of PECs, and attempts to vote without having legal right. Such incidents are reported in 7.3% and 6.8% respectively