Zelenskiy: "I'd rather be a cat in a bag (an unknown quantity) than a sheep in wolf's clothing. Another question from the people: Why are your opponents all in jail? Because they are a threat to you?"
Poroshenko: "I can answer this.... All of this is a lie."
"I'm not a butcher and I'm not a judge. The president's role is to create an environment for an independent judiciary, I'm not the one who is supposed to catch thieves and cut off their hands. None of my friends, I can swear, will ever have special treatment before the law. If convicted they will no longer be my friends, and they will end up jail. These are democratic principles. Now I ask Mr. Zelenskiy: When your business partner, who has robbed Ukraine...of $30 billion and has siphoned $2 billion from the bank, and who has paid you in person from that revenue, why haven't his hands been cut off?"
"Isn't it strange that oligarchs in the diaspora are already raising their heads before the election results are known? If you win, will you begin cutting off arms?"
An online poll on whose introductory remarks were better:
Poroshenko: "In my view, the biggest threat is incompetence in the presidential post."
"You told me that you would read up when you get into the presidency. Do you think we have time? Can the president afford the luxury of learning as he goes?"
Zelenskiy: "First of all, I'm not your opponent, I'm your challenger. I've been to the counterterror operation zone many times. You're lying, Poroshenko, because I'm a very public person. If someone wanted to conscript me, they could have found me anywhere."
Says he has not been to Russia in some time, then adds: "You've been on the phone with Putin directly or through [Viktor] Medvedchuk countless times. Don't ask me questions that you're supposed to answer, like [about] the war that hasn't ended."
A poll on whose introductory remarks at the debate were better:
Zelenskiy asks first question: "I'm reading a citizen's question. How is it possible that we live in one of the poorest countries in the world, run by one of the richest presidents?"
"Why haven't [members of parliament] had immunity lifted? Why haven't [former President Viktor] Yanukovych's allies not been sentenced?"
Poroshenko: Says part of Zelenskiy's question "shows my opponent's complete incompetence. It implies that military leaders are guilty for deaths."
"It's not our military that is guilty, but [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, who has destroyed our military."
Poroshenko: "You can't imagine the state of the country I took over in 2014. Without a budget, weapons, a military. And you're trying to make Ukraine the object of your jokes. At that time, you were only trying to earn money from your jokes, while we were doing hard work. We Ukrainians have saved the country, we have made a breakthrough to Europe, we have replaced the laws of the Russian markets."
International organizations admitted that we have done more in the past 4 years than in 100 years more. [6:21]