Ukraine's polling stations open in a presidential election overshadowed by violence in the country's mainly Russian-speaking east and by Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.
ການເລືອກຕັ້ງ ປະທານາທິບໍດີ ໃນ ຢູເຄຣນ
![Un élément du Régiment de la sécurité présidentielle, visage masqué, s'avance en direction des manifestants qui s'en fuient à l'hôtel Laico à Ouagadougou, au Burkina Faso, 20 septembre 2015.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e72b546a-d4af-4a8d-9165-e17293be3bca_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Un élément du Régiment de la sécurité présidentielle, visage masqué, s'avance en direction des manifestants qui s'en fuient à l'hôtel Laico à Ouagadougou, au Burkina Faso, 20 septembre 2015.
![People cast their ballots during voting in a presidential election at polling station in Kyiv.](https://gdb.voanews.com/7af63447-6245-407f-bebf-bc64f976a9e2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People cast their ballots during voting in a presidential election at polling station in Kyiv.
![Ukraine's presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko casts her ballot as her husband Oleksandr, right, and daughter Yevgenia assist her at a polling station during presidential election in Dnipropetrovsk.](https://gdb.voanews.com/94246261-2001-4302-9719-d71c767a363c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Ukraine's presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko casts her ballot as her husband Oleksandr, right, and daughter Yevgenia assist her at a polling station during presidential election in Dnipropetrovsk.
![Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk (R) accompanied by his wife Teresiya (C) speaks to journalists after voting in a presidential election at polling station in Kyiv.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e44328e6-1e09-4198-8a6d-6b922b00aac2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk (R) accompanied by his wife Teresiya (C) speaks to journalists after voting in a presidential election at polling station in Kyiv.