A series of escalating video challenges between the two remaining candidates in Ukraine’s presidential election led on April 5 to the two men — one a comic and political neophyte, the other the incumbent — having doctors draw blood from their arms as cameras rolled.
2019 Presidential Election
Los Angeles Times: Ukraine’s presidential election enters second, more surreal round
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko undergoing a blood test in a clinic of the Olimpiyski, the country's biggest stadium, in Kyiv on April 5, 2019, to prove he does not abuse alcohol and drugs ahead of a second-round runoff on April 21, 2019.
