Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has agreed to a face-off with the presidential race frontrunner Volodymyr Zelensky, in Kiev’s 70,000-seat Olympic stadium. What a spectacular twist to an already colorful Ukrainian election campaign, all the more impressive to a Russian audience, as it is impossible to imagine a debate — in any form — involving a rival to Russia’s head of state Vladimir Putin.
Ukraine’s presidential runoff is scheduled for April 21 while the debate is set for April 19, marking the final stretch of this campaign…
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