Verkhovna Rada election results announced

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's Servant of People party is winning the snap parliamentary election with 43.16% of votes, the Central Election Commission (CEC) said after all 100% of the ballots have been counted.

Four other parties have overcome the 5% threshold. Opposition Platform For Life received 13.05% of votes, former prime minister Yulia Timoshenko's Batkivschina - 8.18%, former president Pyotr Poroshenko's European Solidarity - 8.10%, and singer Svyatoslav Vakarchuk's Golos (Voice) - 5.82%.

A snap parliamentary election was held in Ukraine on July 21. Voter turnout stood at 49.84%, the lowest ever in the history of Ukrainian parliamentary elections, TASS recalls.