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People voting at a medical school in central Kiev on Sunday (Photo: EUobserver)

Big turnout in Ukraine election, despite pro-Russia gunmen

Pro-Russia gunmen have all-but stopped voting in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine, but people are turning out in big numbers in the rest of the country.

A report by the Kiev-based NGO, the All-Ukrainian Committee of Voters, on Sunday (25 May) at 2pm local time, said there is no voting in Donetsk city, which is home to 1 million people.

In Severedonetsk, in the neighbouring Luhansk region, none of the 50 polling stations were allowed to work.

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