The elections were monitored by 2,321 accredited foreign observers, 304 of them on behalf of 21 states and 2,017 from 20 international organizations.
The Ukrainian democratic watchdog OPORA stated about the elections that they were legitimate, but that “the [election] campaign cannot be called fully free within the limits of the country” because of the fighting in the Donbas region.
The voting was impossible to provide on the territories that was not under government control. Particularly, because of Russian occupation. The voting was not provided in the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol. The voting also did not reach significant parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts because of the ongoing war in Donbas.
Because of this, 27 out of the 450 seats in the 8th Verkhovna Rada remained unfilled.
The impeachment came long after Yanukovich was driven out of office by armed mobs