Page 16 - Yulia Timoshenko News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

. i'm nick spicer welcome to the program. ukrainians are voting in the first round of their presidential election the vote is being watched closely in the west and in russia ukrainians have dozens of candidates to pick from the polls indicate there are three front runners television comedian dean years unless he leads the pack despite never having held political office he's ahead of president petro poroshenko who's led the country since two thousand and fourteen as well as former prime minister yulia timoshenko the last time ukraine went to the polls russia had just invaded an annex the crimea...

These this time compared to five years ago we've seen a lot of people of all different ages even very sick people struggling their way up two flights of stairs to cost that vote interestingly when you also people today think that their vote will really count that will be fairly counted here people are very confident of that there are lots of observers around international but also ukrainian observers so people really you know seemingly convinced that the democratic process is working and they can change something with their vote and why are so many ukrainians of polls are to be believed ready ...

To ensure ukrainians can find work at home both president poroshenko and at the prime minister to machine code have been around for decades and many ukrainians especially younger voters are hungry for change. one person who seems to fit the bill is actor and comedian polygamous alinsky the forty one year old may have no previous political experience but he has played the president before and the hit series servant of the people of the sitcom tells the story of a school teacher whose rant about the state of the country is caught on video by one of his pupils the video goes viral and the teacher...

Thousand people have lost their lives since war broke out in eastern ukraine back in twenty fourteen millions have been forced to leave their homes as the shooting continues political attempts to end the conflict remain stuck in no man's land but the fact the fighting didn't spread further and that ukraine's army was able to regroup essential to president petro poroshenko as campaign his message to voters is clear only he can keep ukraine safe and stand up to russia. but five years of war have also left their mark on ukrainians pockets in europe second poorest nation real incomes are still low...

The shooting continues political attempts to end the conflict remain stuck in no man's land but the fact the fighting didn't spread further and that ukraine's army was able to regroup essential to president petro poroshenko as campaign when his message to voters is clear only he can keep ukraine safe and stand up to russia. but five years of war have also left their mark on ukrainians pockets in europe second poorest nation real incomes are still lower than they were before the rule as household bills have skyrocketed. over three million ukrainians have left the country in search of work it's ...