Pro-presidential bloc comes first in Ukraine's parliamentary elections

The pro-president Poroshenko bloc came first in Sunday's parliamentary elections in Ukraine. The bloc received 22.5 percent of the vote with Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's Popular Front coming second with 21.8 percent.

Five more parties secured seats in the Verkhovna Rada. They are Samopomich led by the Lviv Mayor (14.2 percent), the Opposition Bloc (7.8 percent), the Radical Party headed by Oleg Lyashko, the nationalist Svoboda party (5.8 percent) and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko's Batkivshchina (Fatherland) party, which received 5.6 percent of the vote.

As of 4 pm Kyiv time the turnout constituted 40.42 percent.