2019 Presidential Election
- The Central Election Commission counted 100 percent of the vote. Volodymyr Zelenskiy won in 19 out of 24 oblasts. Poroshenko led in western Ukraine: Lviv and Ternopil Oblasts. Yuriy Boyko led in eastern Ukraine: Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts. Yulia Tymoshenko won in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
- President Poroshenko responded to Zelenskiy’s challenge in a video of his own. He said the campaign isn’t a show but agreed to debate at the Olimpiyskiy stadium in Kyiv and to take a drug test. Now the two can’t decide on a lab.
- In a new video, Zelenskiy invited Yulia Tymoshenko to be the debate moderator.
- 73.5 percent of Ukrainians believe that two presidential candidates have to debate before the runoff, according to the survey by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation.
- After a third failure, Anatoly Grytsenko said he would not run for president anymore
In non-election news
- A bungled car bombing killed a would-be assassin in Kyiv
- Ivana Kudri Street in Kyiv has been renamed after Arizona Senator John McCain.
Business news
- Foreign companies may open accounts in Ukrainian banks without having to register a local office — National Bank of Ukraine
- Remittances from Ukrainians abroad amounted to $10.8 billion in 2018, Polish website Rzeczpospolita reported. Ukrainian immigrants in Poland sent the most money home: $3.6 billion, a 16 percent increase since the previous year. Russia is in the second place; Ukrainians sent under $1 billion from there.
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