Foreign Minister of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius welcomed the democratic elections in Ukraine, as he wrote on Twitter.
I congratulate #Ukraine, having reaffirmed its democratic credentials by conducting 1st round of Presidential elections in essentially free, fair & highly competitive manner. Regret that due to RU aggression elections could not be held in occupied Crimea & parts of Donbass.
— Linas Linkevicius (@LinkeviciusL) April 1, 2019
Volodymyr Zelensky enters the second tour of the elections with 30,22% of votes, while Petro Poroshenko, the current President of Ukraine, is second with his 15,93%, as the Central Election Commission reports after the procession of 96,16% of the protocols.
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Zelensky is a leader in the majority of the regions of Ukraine, while Poroshenko is supported in western regions - Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Ternopil.