KIEV, Ukraine — A comedian who’s never held political office tops the public opinion polls ahead of Ukraine’s presidential election, but even he appears to be falling far short of enough support to win in the first round. Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister making her third run at the presidency, was in third with 9.7 per cent. “We are tired of the old politicians who give out new promises, while they themselves only steal and increase corruption,” Zelenskiy supporter Oleg Derun said Saturday. He signed an association agreement with the European Union so Ukrainians now can travel visa-free to the European Union. She was released amid the disorder of the 2014 overthrow of Yanukovych, and lost a presidential election to Poroshenko three months later.

Source: National Post March 30, 2019 12:34 UTC