Hromadske TV is reporting almost 20 percent turnout by 1:30 p.m. local time:
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk casts his ballot in Kyiv.
Via Reuters, a member of an election commission carries documents and a mobile ballot box as he walks to visit local residents during a parliamentary election in the village of Semyonovka near Slavyansk in Eastern Ukraine.
The Committee of Voters of Ukraine has a graphic showing how many voters in Eastern Ukraine can cast ballots. In blue are the regions where there is little threat to go to polls, and orange is where there is a critical threat to voting. Yellow is the area where threats are in the middle. The NGO estimates that 42 percent can cast ballots in Eastern Ukraine, while 58 percent cannot.
The Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow said that 167 people had voted by noon at its polling station. There are 5 other polling stations in cities elsewhere in Russia, according to Interfax.
President Poroshenko has arrived in the town of Kramatorsk to monitor voting.
Yulia Tymoshenko's party, Batkivshchyna, released a video of her voting in Dnipropetrovsk. Her party is trying to cross the 5 percent threshold to gain seats in Parliament after several prominent members left the party, including Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Tymoshenko ran in the 2014 presidential elections but came in second place.
