Ukraine is "ready for elections", President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, after US President Donald Trump repeated claims Kyiv was "using war" to avoid holding them.

Zelensky's five-year term as president was due to end in May 2024, but elections have been suspended in Ukraine since martial law was declared after Russia's invasion.

Speaking to reporters following Trump's comments in a wide-raging Politico interview, external, Zelensky said he would ask for proposals to be drawn up which could change the law.

 

Elections could be held in the next 60 to 90 days if security for the vote was guaranteed with the help of the US and other allies, he said.

"I'm asking now, and I'm stating this openly, for the US to help me, perhaps together with our European colleagues, to ensure security for the elections," he told reporters.

"The issue of elections in Ukraine, I believe, depends first and foremost on our people, and this is a question for the people of Ukraine, not the people of other countries. With all due respect to our partners," he said.

 

"I've heard hints that we're clinging to power, or that I personally am clinging to the presidency" and "that's why the war isn't ending", which he called "frankly, a completely unreasonable narrative".

Zelensky won election in 2019 with more than 73% of the vote.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5l1474yv7o

 

6 minutes ago, bannork said:

Elections could be held in the next 60 to 90 days if security for the vote was guaranteed with the help of the US and other allies, he said.

Ha ha begging for yet more money...anyway I believe he will be gone quite soon whatever,  they have a successor lined up   the architect of the failed 2023 Summer Counteroffensive  and Nordstream pipeline bombings..lets wait and see.

2 minutes ago, johng said:

Ha ha begging for yet more money...anyway I believe he will be gone quite soon whatever,  they have a successor lined up   the architect of the failed 2023 Summer Counteroffensive  and Nordstream pipeline bombings..lets wait and see.

Zelensky has pulled the rug from under Putin and his appeaser Trump.

 

 

2 minutes ago, johng said:

Ha ha begging for yet more money...anyway I believe he will be gone quite soon whatever,  they have a successor lined up   the architect of the failed 2023 Summer Counteroffensive  and Nordstream pipeline bombings..lets wait and see.

Not begging, it is asking for assistance to send an invader back to where he belongs, the same as Poland did, where the UK tried to do it on their own, but in the end, free countries did come together to do exactly that, send the aggressor back home, which is how it should be, not thinking about your wallet, or, trying to belittle them, as you are doing..........😒

Where do you come from.......? 🤫

19 hours ago, transam said:

send the aggressor back home, which is how it should be, not thinking about your wallet, or, trying to belittle them, as you are doing.

I always think about my wallet  especially when a corrupt beggar comes to relieve me of it.

 

19 hours ago, transam said:

Where do you come from.......? 🤫

I keep telling you but it doesn't seem to sink in..what does it matter

where I'm from anyway ?

1 minute ago, johng said:

I always think about my wallet  especially when a corrupt beggar comes to relieve me of it.

 

I keep telling you but it doesn't seem to sink in..what does it matter

where I'm from anyway ?

Was it Belgium, and you're worrying about where your taxes go, if so I will give you another roasting.....

If not, pray tell....🤫