Comedian Zelenskiy wins Ukrainian presidential race by landslide: exit polls

The apparent landslide victory of Volodymyr Zelenskiy, 41, is a bitter blow for incumbent Petro Poroshenko who tried to rally Ukrainians around the flag by casting himself as a bulwark against Russian aggression and a champion of Ukrainian identity.Two national exit polls showed Zelenskiy had won 73 percent of the vote with Poroshenko winning just 25 percent.Zelenskiy, who plays a fictitious president in a popular TV series, is now poised to take over the leadership of a country on the frontline