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Comedian Zelenskiy wins Ukrainian presidential race by landslide: exit poll

Volodymyr Zelenskiy. He has won the Ukrainian presidential race. [Photo: Curtesy]

Ukraine entered uncharted political waters on Sunday after an exit poll showed a comedian with no political experience and few detailed policies had easily won enough votes to become the next president of a country at war.

The apparent landslide victory of Volodymyr Zelenskiy, 41, is a bitter blow for incumbent Petro Poroshenko who tried to rally Ukrainians around the flag by casting himself as a bulwark against Russian aggression and a champion of Ukrainian identity.

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