Ukraine Jewish comedian: 'First step' to election win
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the comedian whom exit polls show leading Ukraine's presidential election, says he has made a major step toward victory.
Exit polls indicated Zelenskiy would get about 30 percent of the vote, far short of the absolute majority needed to win the first round. Most exit polls said incumbent Petro Poroshenko received the second-biggest support, which would put him and Zelenskiy in a runoff on April 21.
Zelenskiy told journalists after the polls closed that "this is only the first step toward a great victory."
He denied that his campaign would coordinate with the forces of any of the other 37 candidates on the first-round ballot.
He said that "we are young people. We don't want to see all of the past in our future."
