On April 22 morning Ukrainians will wake up to a President who comes from outside the traditional political elite that has led this country of more than 40 million people since independence in 1991.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a television comic they voted into the president’s office on April 21 in an apparent landslide — he garnered about three times as many votes as his opponent, according to early projections — will inherit a massive to-do list for a country that is in the midst of a simmering conflict with Russia, has fallen to become one of the poorest countries in Europe, and confronts perceptions of corruption.
