Team Zelenskiy - behind the scenes in Ukraine election win


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  • Monday, 22 Apr 2019

FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his team members react following the announcement of the first exit poll in a presidential election at his campaign headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine April 21, 2019. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi/File Photo

KIEV (Reuters) - When comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy strode onto stage on Sunday to claim victory in Ukraine's presidential election, he was accompanied by several teammates who could become familiar faces in Ukrainian politics in the coming months.

Zelenskiy, an actor with no political experience, defeated incumbent President Petro Poroshenko by a landslide on Sunday, as voters backed his promise to root out corruption and up-end the status quo.

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