Ukraine's opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych leads Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko by over 7% in the country's presidential election runoff after 30.41% of the ballots have been counted.
Yanukovych, who lost in the 2004 presidential election to incumbent president Viktor Yushchenko, is ahead with 50.79%, while Tymoshenko gained 43.77% of the ballots counted so far.
Andriy Mahera, a deputy head of the Central Election Commission, said earlier that preliminary results would be announced on Monday evening, but his colleague Mikhailo Okhedrovskiy said the results would be ready no earlier than February 10.
Ukraine's Central Election Commission said that in line with preliminary results, the voter turnout was 69%, slightly more than in the January 17 first round that saw Yanukovych gain 35.32% of the vote and Tymoshenko 25.05%.
KIEV, February 8 (RIA Novosti)
