DOMINANT ANGLE
Kyiv soberly relays Lula's victory in the second round, first focusing on the arithmetic of the vote and the reversal of the first round, without dwelling on the Bolsonaro camp's contestation.
Dominant angle identified — does not reflect unanimity of this country’s media
KEY POINTS
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TSN: after counting nearly 99% of the votes, Lula (80 years old) obtains 51.75% against 48.25% for Flávio Bolsonaro (45 years old).
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NV situates the second round on Sunday, October 25, and gives 51.8% against 48.2% for Senator Flávio Bolsonaro.
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TSN notes that Lula had lost the first round by a narrow margin early in October and secures a fourth term.
ANALYSIS
Kyiv, October 26, 2026. The Ukrainian press is covering the Brazilian election in brief reports, focusing on the numerical result. TSN Ukraine reports that Lula da Silva "defeated Bolsonaro" in the presidential election and thus obtained a fourth term as head of state. The media attributes the information to the British daily The Guardian, "with reference to the data from Brazil's electoral authorities".
According to TSN, after the counting of nearly 99% of the votes, Lula, 80 years old, collected 51.75% of the votes. His opponent, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, 45 years old, gathered 48.25%. NV Ukraine, on the other hand, reported on the second round held on Sunday, October 25, and gave 51.8% against 48.2%: the difference between the two articles is due to rounding and the moment of the count, not a fundamental divergence.
Both articles emphasize the dynamics of the election. TSN recalls that at the beginning of October, Lula had lost the first round with a narrow margin against Flávio Bolsonaro, but that in the second round, the outgoing president "managed to change the course of the battle" and secure victory. The story is one of a turnaround, presented without commentary on its causes.
TSN's text also places this result in a European electoral sequence: it refers to the statement by former Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, who attributes the defeat of his camp to a supposed revolution organized by the West, and then to Marine Le Pen's entry into the campaign, presented as one of the main contenders for the French presidential election next year. These links are part of "we already reported" sections and show that Brazil is seen as one episode among others in the global electoral calendar, rather than as a specific case.
The provided articles do not mention Flávio Bolsonaro's refusal to recognize the result, his plan to appeal to the Superior Electoral Tribunal, the extension of voting, or the reaction of markets or Washington. Ukrainian coverage of this election is therefore limited to the announcement of the winner, the distribution of votes, and the comparison with the first round.
Neither of the two media outlets establishes a link with the war in Ukraine or with Brasília's position on the conflict: the angle remains that of brief international news, reproduced from a foreign source for TSN and written in Russian for NV.
