Russia will decide on whether or not to congratulate Petro Poroshenko on winning the presidency in elections in Ukraine only after the final results of the voting are officially announced, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said.
“When the final results are officially specified, then a decision
will be made,” Ushakov said at a news conference in Moscow when asked
whether President Vladimir Putin plans to congratulate Poroshenko.
Ushakov said he was not in a position to say whether anyone would
represent Russia at Poroshenko’s inauguration ceremony, noting that no
information was available yet as to who was invited to the ceremony.
Information available following the tabulation of 99.03% of
electronic voting reports published on the Ukrainian Central Elections
Commission website on Wednesday indicates that Poroshenko, an
unaffiliated parliamentarian, was supported by 54.7% of the voters
(9,838,430 people), Batkivschyna leader Yulia Tymoshenko by 12.82%,
Radical Party leader Oleh Liashko by 8.33%, Civic Position party leader
Anatoliy Hrytsenko by 5.48%, and Sergiy Tigipko by 5.23%.
Oleh Tiahnybok, the leader of the Svoboda association and its
parliamentary faction, garnered 1.16% and Right Sector party leader
Dmytro Yarosh 0.7% of the vote
