President's bloc wins Ukraine election

Depending on the exit poll, the political grouping led by Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko collected between 23-24.3 percent of the votes cast in the country's parliamentary election held on Sunday. The National Front, led by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk came second with 21-21.3 percent of the votes. Samopomich, a grouping led by Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovyi cam second with 12.5-13.2 percent. The Opposition Bloc, a party made up of the allies of former President Viktor Yanukovych, collected some 6.6-7.6 percent of the votes. Due to a military conflict going on, polling stations were not organized in the some areas in the Donetsk region in the east, nor in Crimea, annexed by Russia earlier this year.