KIEV (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 31st March, 2019) RIA Novosti Ukraine portal head Kirill Vyshinsky said that he would vote in the ongoing Ukrainian presidential election, according to a video published by Ukrainian ombudswoman Lyudmila Denisova on Sunday.
"I will exercise my constitutional right," Vyshinsky said when asked by Denisova whether he would go to polls.
Denisova visited the journalist in a Kiev jail.
Vyshinsky was detained in Kiev in May, on suspicion of treason and support for the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics. In February, the Kherson city court extended the journalist's arrest until April 8. According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Vyshinsky's arrest is politically motivated and demonstrates Ukrainian authorities' unacceptable policy, aimed at targeting journalists who are just doing their jobs.
Ukrainians went to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president out of a crowded pool of 39 contenders. Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been ahead in all recent opinion polls, with incumbent President Petro Poroshenko and ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko tied in the second place.
The Ukrainian police said they had been alerted to over 1,600 electoral irregularities as of late afternoon, but the Central Election Commission said it had not registered any serious violations.
Moreover, Russian observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe have been barred from monitoring the voting process by Kiev, which jeopardizes the legitimacy of the future results of the vote, according to Moscow.
In addition, Kiev did not organize polling places either in those parts of the eastern Donbas region that are not controlled by Kiev, or in Russia, where the largest diaspora of the Ukrainian people lives, which has affected up to 10 million eligible Ukrainian voters.
