Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the leading presidential candidate in opinion polls, met on Feb. 23 with representatives of the IMF and the World Bank and with French Ambassador Isabelle Dumont.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the leading presidential candidate in opinion polls, met on Feb. 23 with representatives of the IMF and the World Bank and with French Ambassador Isabelle Dumont. Aivaras Abromavicius, former minister of economy and trade, set up the meetings. He later told RFE/RL: “In those three meetings on Saturday he did well.” Without providing details, he said Zelenskiy “took pressing questions basically head-on” and gave “impressive answers.”