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KYIV – Newly elected President Volodymyr Zelensky suggested he won’t necessarily pursue early parliamentary elections after getting sworn in later this month. His comment came following a May 7 meeting with European Union Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn in Kyiv.
KYIV – Russia continues to test President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky during a transitional power period with further encroachment on Ukraine’s sovereignty. In the span of two weeks, the Kremlin banned oil and coal exports to Ukraine, started expediting the issuance of Russian passports to Ukrainians and continued its creeping annexation of the Azov Sea.
KYIV – President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky is already facing his first challenge just three days after he trounced incumbent Petro Poroshenko in an April 21 election for the nation’s highest post.
KYIV – The race for Ukraine’s presidency has turned into a show, and its chief spectacle is a comedian performer who has not once in nearly five months of campaigning publicly appeared before voters, choosing instead to engage them in the realm of online social media.
KYIV – Runoff candidates Volodymyr Zelensky and incumbent Petro Poroshenko this week elaborated on the first steps they would take in the next presidential term. Both presented similar approaches to fighting corruption that emphasized the need to reboot the law enforcement and judicial system.
Runoff candidates agree to debate
KYIV – Presidential election runoff opponents Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelensky have provisionally agreed to a debate after the political neophyte and comedian took nearly a third of the first round vote tally on March 31 among 39 candidates.
KYIV – As Ukrainians head to the polls on March 31 to elect their sixth post-Soviet president, questions still linger about the commitment the three front-runners have to continue reforming the country to realize its true economic potential.
KYIV – Presidential front-runner Volodymyr Zelensky continued to meet with mostly foreign stakeholders in semi-private meetings this week while his two closest competitors stayed on the campaign trail as the March 31 election draws near.
KYIV – Politically untested comedian and actor Volodymyr Zelensky continues to lead a pool of 39 presidential candidates in an unpredictable first round of Ukraine’s presidential election, according to two nationwide surveys released this week.
KYIV – Four years and one month ago, the second of two major and decisive battles took place in the Donbas war. In the Battle of Debaltseve in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine’s army tested itself against regular and irregular units of the Russian military, including battle-hardened mercenaries from the Wagner private military outfit.