Slick online ads and attention-grabbing antics have spiced up Ukraine’s presidential election, now shaped by the frontrunner – popular TV comic Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
2019 Presidential Election
BBC: Ukraine election rivals trade taunts and media tricks
This combination of files pictures made on March 31, 2019 shows portraits of presidential candidates : Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (L) taken on November 3, 2018 and Ukrainian comic actor and showman Volodymyr Zelensky taken on March 6, 2019. - Comedian and political novice Volodymyr Zelensky topped the first round of Ukraine's presidential election on March 31, 2019, exit polls showed, leading incumbent Petro Poroshenko into a run-off. (Photo by Kayhan OZER and Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP)
