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As of now, President Volodymyr Zelensky does not plan to announce presidential elections or a referendum on a possible peace deal with Russia on Feb. 24, a source in the President's Office familiar with the matter told the Kyiv Independent on Feb. 11.

The comment came after the Financial Times reported that Kyiv was preparing to hold both votes this spring and that Zelensky could unveil the plan on the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion.

"He wasn't planning to," the source said when asked whether the president would make such an announcement on Feb. 24. "When there's no security, there's nothing else."

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Zelensky won't break the law."

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Yeah that was the law when he was elected. People keep acting like it's the same as America, but here it's the opposite. Politicians should follow election laws both in letter and in spirit

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 49 points 2 days ago

Reminder their constitution doesn't allow elections during war, for good reason - how tf are you supposed to vote when you're being bombed?

[–] ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee 8 points 2 days ago

Which timeline is this... 24 hours after Trump gets elected? Or the too weak two weeks when Trump was supposed to get Putin to agree to a ceasefire? US needs to get its house in order.

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Note that some days ago FT published an article titled " Zelenskyy planning elections in Ukraine and vote on peace deal".