The Central Election Commission of Ukraine began to publish data on the vote count in the second round of the presidential elections. According to the results of processing 1.08% of the protocols, Vladimir Zelensky is gaining 70.36%, Petro Poroshenko - 27.29%. According to exit polls, Zelensky is gaining 72-73% of the vote.

Current Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he would be happy to sign the language law if the Verkhovna Rada adopts it next week. “If the Verkhovna Rada approves the language law next week, I will be happy that I, as the President of Ukraine, will sign it,” Poroshenko noted. Poroshenko has admitted defeat in the second round of the Ukrainian presidential election. He will remain the acting head of state for several more weeks, until the inauguration of Volodymyr Zelensky.

Tatyana Zenkovich / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Vladimir Zelensky won the presidential election in Ukraine. Celebrating the victory at the headquarters, he thanked his parents and wife Elena.

Petro Poroshenko said he was ready to congratulate Volodymyr Zelensky on his victory in the presidential elections in Ukraine. “I am leaving the presidency of the country from next month. This is what the majority of Ukrainians have decided, and I accept this decision,” Poroshenko said at a press conference. The current president also noted that he did not intend to leave politics. Update .

Vladimir Zelensky won the second round of the elections of the President of Ukraine, according to the ecsit regulations, he gained more than 73% of the vote. Speaking at the headquarters, Zelensky thanked his parents, his wife, relatives and the team for support. “I promise that I will never fail you all,” Zelensky said. Photo in the announcement: Sergey Gritz / AP / Scanpix / Leta

Ilya Zhegulev tells how Zelensky and Poroshenko had a time between two rounds - and why the current president of Ukraine lost Sergey Chuzavkov / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Petro Poroshenko during the debate, which Vladimir Zelensky did not come to. Kyiv, Olympic Stadium, April 14, 2019 Judging by the Eccit Polelov , the new president of Ukraine is Vladimir Zelensky (73.2%).

Valentin Ogirenko / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The ec-polles give victory in the second round of the elections of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky . According to the National Exith Paul, counted at 18:00 (voting continued until 20:00) 73.2% of voters cast voted for Zelensky; His rival Petro Poroshenko received 25.3% of the vote. The exit floor of the 1+1 channel gives Zelensky 72.7%, the 112 Ukraine channel -73.7%. Poroshenko recognized the defeat and congratulated Zelensky .

The first launch of the Crew Dragon spacecraft with astronauts on board will be postponed for several months due to an accident that occurred during a fire test on April 20, a source in the space industry told RIA Novosti. "We need to figure out the reasons for the accident during the tests. All this takes a long time. There can now be no talk of launching the Dragon-2 spacecraft in July. Not before the end of the year," the source said.

During the debates, Volodymyr Zelensky brought Petro Poroshenko to his knees, both literally and figuratively. The debates themselves were a pointless show, where Zelensky played the part of a man of the people, and Poroshenko defended himself ineptly. Zelensky is not afraid to call residents of the DPR and LPR "rebels" , which means he is ready to recognize the military conflict as a civil war, and not Russian aggression.

Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Investigators study the place of the explosion in the church in the city of Negombo As a result of a series of explosions in Sri Lanka, more than 200 people were killed on April 21. The largest number of victims are in Catholic temples, where Easter services were going on at that time. No one has yet taken responsibility for the explosions, but they occurred a year after mass attacks on Muslims, which were accused of local radicals.

In Tuva, law enforcement officers detained the seventh of nine prisoners who escaped from a temporary detention center on April 14. The offender was caught in the courtyard of one of the houses in the village of Kyzyl-Mazhalyk. Two escapees remain at large a week later. The first six prisoners were caught within a day after the escape. The fugitives were charged with violence against a police officer and escape. The head of the IVS became a defendant in a criminal case of negligence.

AP / Scanpix / Leta Statue of Christ in the Church of St. Sebastian in Nepombo, a suburbs of the largest city of Sri Lanka Colombo, where an explosion occurred in the morning of April 21. Almost simultaneously with him, five other explosions occurred on Sri Lanka, and after a few hours another two. In total, more than two hundred people died.

Writer Dmitry Bykov, hospitalized on April 16, regained consciousness. The doctors informed the publisher of Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov, about this. Muratov also noted that Bykov "responds to the appeal of doctors and relatives." Bykov was hospitalized on April 16 in Ufa, where he arrived with a lecture. He was put into a medically induced coma; On April 18, he was taken to Moscow by plane.

The police drew up a protocol against Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky under an article on violating the rules for conducting pre-election campaigning. This was told at the headquarters of the candidate. The fact that Zelensky, at the request of journalists, showed his completed ballot paper was considered illegal campaigning by the police.

The number of victims of a series of explosions in Sri Lanka has reached 207 people. This is reported by News 1st, citing a statement from a police spokesman. Earlier it was officially reported about 161 dead. Another 450 people were injured.