Comic actor Volodymyr Zelenskiy likely to win Ukraine's election: Opinion poll

The presidential candidate and comic actor Volodymyr Zelenskiy is likely to win Ukraine's presidential election, according to an opinion poll published on Tuesday. The poll by the KIIS research firm showed Zelenskiy, a political novice who plays a fictional president in a popular TV series, on 72.2 per cent of the vote. Incumbent Petro Poroshenko was on 25.4 per cent.

KIIS polled 2,004 voters in all regions, except annexed Crimea, from April 9 to 14. Last week, a poll by Reiting research agency gave Zelenskiy 61 per cent of votes and incumbent Petro Poroshenko 24 per cent.

Poroshenko and Zelenskiy will meet in the second round of Ukraine's presidential election, which will take place on April 21. Zelenskiy won nearly twice as many votes as Poroshenko in the first round, on March 31.