Ukraine vaults into unknown after comic elected president Ukraine takes a leap into the unknown Monday as comedian Volodymyr Zelensky was elected president on promises of change but just a vague blueprint of what he might do as leader. Zelensky, whose only previous political role was playing the president in a TV show, trounced incumbent Petro Poroshenko in Sunday's election in a stinging rebuke to the establishment fueled by anger over war and social injustice. IMAGES of Kiev streets and SOUNDBITES of Kiev residents