OSCE: Rada election takes place in peaceful way

Elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine were competitive and peacefully.

Ilkka Kanerva, the Special Co-ordinator and leader of the short-term Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Observer Mission in Ukraine, notes the peaceful nature of the extraordinary parliamentary elections in Ukraine on Sunday.

The elections were held in a peaceful environment, Kanerva told at an observers press conference in Kyiv on Monday.