TV Comic Favorite to Supplant Ukrainian President in Runoff

Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a 41-year-old who’s tapped into anger at the ex-Soviet republic’s lack of progress since a pro-European revolution five years ago, won 30.3 percent of votes in the ballot’s first round on Sunday. Petro Poroshenko, bidding for a second five-year term in power, got 16 percent, with almost 90 percent of votes counted. Yulia Tymoshenko, a veteran former prime minister and leader of the earlier Orange Revolution, was eliminated, failing in her third bid for the presidency.