KIEV – Ukraine’s pro-Western and moderately nationalist parties were on course Monday to score a crushing election win that boosted President Petro Poroshenko’s bid to merge his ex-Soviet country with Europe and end a pro-Russian revolt.A partial vote count and exit polls showed overwhelming support for Poroshenko’s drive to break his nation of 45 million out of Russia’s orbit despite the painful economic measures the Kremlin has levied on its western neighbour in reprisal.Results with 30 per cent of the precincts reporting had Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s People’s Front leading with 21.7 per cent of the vote. The president’s Petro …read more
Source: AsiaOne
