Some people getting a bit miffed about this:
A tweet from RFE/RL's correspondent in Kyiv:
Some more Eurovision commentary.
Lots of memes doing the rounds with the election of Emmanuel Macron as French president. This is a Ukraine-related one:
And this is how French expats in Kyiv voted:
Here's what one of the experts we talked to in our news story said Emmanuel Macron's victory in the French presidential election could mean for Ukraine:
Macron's foreign policy is expected to largely be a continuation of the course set by current President Francois Hollande, a Socialist in whose government Macron served as economy minister from 2014 to 2016.
"Macron is a politician who has never in his career dealt with [foreign policy] issues...so you can expect lots of predictability on the Macron team," Martin Michelot, deputy director of the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, told RFE/RL, ticking off a list of EU points of emphasis vis-à-vis security and Russia, whose invasion of Ukraine and continuing support of separatists there prompted Western sanctions: "the same strong position on Russia, the importance of respecting the Minsk agreements, on not recognizing the illegal annexation of Crimea," and a strong commitment to NATO.