The establishment challenger is Yulia Tymoshenko, once prime minister of Ukraine from 2007 to 2010. She’s super famous in Ukraine and leads the Fatherland political party. If the polls are correct, and life imitates art in Ukraine, Zelenksiy will have to forge alliances with people he distrusts. And he will be beholden to outside forces who are still helping to keep Ukraine afloat. He speaks Russian, not Ukrainian, but imagining four more years of Poroshenko or Tymoshenko disheartens many Ukrainians,” says Cohen.

Source: Forbes February 08, 2019 13:01 UTC