An armoured police vehicle stands outside a polling station in Mariupol, the easternmost Ukrainian city still under Kiev’s control, as officers patrol the streets.Just a few miles to the east is the frontline in a separatist conflict with Russia-backed rebels that has cost some 13,000 lives since it broke out in 2014 following Moscow’s annexation of Crimea.President Petro Poroshenko came to power the same year after a popular uprising forced out his pro-Russian predecessor.Volodymyr Zelensky:… …read more
Source: South China Morning Post
