A non-traditional campaign .. Comedy representative wins the presidency of Ukraine

Ukrainian television has said that Vladimir Zelinsky has won the presidential run-off against outgoing President Petro Poroshenko, which Moscow considers the Ukrainians' desire for change.

According to polls conducted by several opinion polls among voters after leaving the polling stations, Zelinsky, who has no political experience, received about 73 percent of the votes.

In announcing the victory at his campaign headquarters, Zelinsky, who was the president in a television series called "The Servant of the People", vowed not to disappoint the Ukrainian people.

Zielinski, 41, has vowed in previous statements to end the war in the Dombas region and eradicate corruption amid growing discontent over rising prices and falling living standards.

As an out-of-the-ordinary candidate, Zelinsky did not take a regular campaign, preferring to perform comedies with his band and launch his positions through social networking sites instead of newspapers and television channels.

The United States, the European Union and Russia will closely monitor Zelinsky's foreign policy statements to see if he will try to end the war against pro-Russian separatists that has killed some 13,000 people.

The outgoing President Petro Poroshenko admitted in a speech to his supporters in his crushing defeat to Zilinsky.

Poroshenko said he would leave office next month, but made it clear he had no intention of quitting political life.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gregory Karasin said Zelinsky's great victory showed that the Ukrainians "voted for change."

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Ukraine now had the opportunity to "reset" relations and unite its people.

It is noteworthy that after the arrival of pro-Western to power in Ukraine in 2014, Russia included the Ukrainian Crimea, and a conflict erupted in the east with the separatists, has so far resulted in 13 thousand dead.

Although he supported the continuation of the pro-Western path taken by Ukraine five years ago, Zelinsky believes that dialogue with Russia is inevitable.