Police open 17 proceedings on violations related to electoral process – Interior Ministry

According to the report, as of 17:00 police received 1,365 applications and reports related to the electoral process, most of them in Kyiv - 186, Dnipropetrovsk region - 196, Odesa region - 147, Kharkiv region - 129, Donetsk region - 100, Poltava region - 65, and Sumy region - 64.

"The above facts are mostly related to illegal campaigning (102), photographing of ballot papers (86), voter bribing (29), damage to the ballot (22), fake bomb threats (15), and attempts to bring a ballot paper out of a polling station (8). Seventeen criminal proceedings have been initiated on the basis of these facts," the Interior Ministry said.

The report notes that the police also compiled nine administrative protocols.

The presidential election is underway in Ukraine on March 31.

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