{"id":4261,"date":"2025-12-10T05:35:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/zelenskyy-says-ukraine-ready-to-hold-polls-if-us-allies-ensure-security\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T05:35:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:35:49","slug":"zelenskyy-says-ukraine-ready-to-hold-polls-if-us-allies-ensure-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/zelenskyy-says-ukraine-ready-to-hold-polls-if-us-allies-ensure-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy says Ukraine ready to hold polls if US, allies ensure security"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Ukrainian leader responds to US President Trump\u2019s suggestion that he is using the war as an excuse to avoid elections.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has declared that his government was prepared to hold elections within three months if the United States and Kyiv\u2019s other allies can ensure the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/10\/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-1385\">security of the voting process<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy issued his statement on Tuesday as he faced renewed pressure from US President Donald Trump, who suggested in an interview with a news outlet that the Ukrainian government was using Russia\u2019s war on their country as an excuse to avoid elections.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 3 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/newsfeed\/2025\/12\/6\/ukraine-official-warns-of-a-new-law-of-power-after-russian-aggression\">Ukraine official warns of a \u2018new law of power\u2019 after Russian aggression<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/6\/ukraine-peace-talks-stall-as-russia-unleashes-huge-waves-of-attacks\">Russia launches huge wave of attacks on Ukraine as peace talks continue<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/9\/zelenskyy-meets-pope-leo-xiv-in-rome-amid-us-pressure-over-peace-plan\">Zelenskyy meets Pope Leo XIV in Rome amid US pressure over peace plan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>Wartime elections are forbidden under Ukrainian law, and Zelenskyy\u2019s term in office as the country\u2019s elected president expired last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m ready for elections, and moreover I ask\u2026 that the US help me, maybe together with European colleagues, to ensure the security of an election,\u201d Zelenskyy said in comments to reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then in the next 60-90 days, Ukraine will be ready to hold an election,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In a Politico news article published earlier on Tuesday, Trump was quoted as saying: \u201cYou know, they [Ukraine] talk about a democracy, but it gets to a point where it\u2019s not a democracy any more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy dismissed the suggestion that he was clinging to power as \u201ctotally inadequate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He then said that he would ask parliament to prepare proposals for new legislation that could allow for elections during martial law.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Ukraine\u2019s parliament overwhelmingly approved a resolution affirming the legitimacy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/2\/23\/ukraines-zelenskyy-offers-to-leave-office-in-exchange-for-peace-nato\">Zelenskyy\u2019s wartime stay<\/a> in office, asserting the constitutionality of deferring the presidential election while the country fights Russia\u2019s invasion.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Trump also accused <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/2\/19\/dictator-trump-feuds-with-zelenskyy-amid-negotiations-over-ukraine-war\">Zelenskyy of being a \u201cdictator\u201d<\/a>, echoing claims previously made by Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy and other officials have routinely dismissed the idea of holding elections while frequent Russian air strikes take place across the country, nearly a million troops are at the front and millions more Ukrainians are displaced. Also uncertain is the voting status of those Ukrainians living in the one-fifth of the country occupied by Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Polls also show that Ukrainians are against holding wartime elections, but they also want new faces in a political landscape largely unchanged since the last national elections in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine, which is pushing back on a US-backed peace plan seen as Moscow-friendly, is also seeking strong security guarantees from its allies that would prevent any new Russian invasion in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Washington\u2019s peace proposal involves Ukraine surrendering land that Russia has not captured, primarily the entire industrial Donbas region, in return for security promises that fall short of Kyiv\u2019s aspirations, including its wish to join the NATO military alliance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian leader responds to US President Trump\u2019s suggestion that he is using the war as an excuse to avoid elections. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has declared that his government was prepared to hold elections within three months if the United States and Kyiv\u2019s other allies can ensure the security of the voting process. 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