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Just under a half of Ukrainians (48.4 percent) said they would vote for Volodymyr Zelenskiy and 17 percent for the incumbent, Petro Poroshenko, were the second round of the presidential election held right now, according to the findings of a poll conducted by the Kiyv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) on April 9-14.

Seventeen point nine per cent were undecided, 1.6 percent were going to ruin the ballot, 6.3 percent did not intend to go to the polls and 8.8 percent refused to answer the question.

KIIS interviewed 2,004 respondents in 129 towns across Ukraine; in Luhansk and Donetsk region, the poll was conducted only in Ukraine-controlled parts of the regions.

The runoff is due to be held on April 21.