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We may have different opinions about Zelenskyy, but only Ukrainian citizens have the right to judge his support,
said Yaroslav Zhelezniak, a lawmaker from the opposition party Holos Ukraine—and President Zelensky said this clearly—is ready for talks to end the war under strong leadership of President Trump. The Batkivshchyna team is negotiating with all our allies who can help secure a just and peaceful solution as soon as possible. Until that moment, and I have said this more than once, there can be no talk of holding any elections in Ukraine."
Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko (Batkivshchyna party) said on Facebook I think it is good for democracy. That's the beauty of a solid democracy, you have more than one person potentially running,
Putin wants to weaken Ukraine from within. Putin also wants to remove Zelensky, maybe even using Trump, because right now Zelensky is a symbol of Ukrainian resistance for the whole world and he will never agree to conditions tantamount to surrender of Ukraine,
said Oleksandr Morezkho, chairman of the Ukrainian parliament’s foreign affairs committee and member of Zelensky’s Servant of the People Party Political competition [over elections] during a war can destroy the country from the inside,
We see that it is not just the axis of evil and Russia trying to revise the world order, but the US is finally destroying this order.
Poroshenko’s people and Yulia, they’re all talking to Trump World, positioning themselves as people who would be easier to work with. And people who would consent to many of the things that Zelenskyy is not agreeing to,
Nonetheless ... a top Republican foreign policy expert told POLITICO, asking that his name be withheld so he could speak freely Our narrative is not to push for elections but to secure free and fair competitive post-war elections in our country.”
The press office responded You would have to prevent me from participating in the elections,
he said, before suggesting, as he has previously, They’re trying to establish informal connections or use the connections they have with the Republican Party or Trump’s entourage and to indicate their willingness to work with Washington,
The elites are feeling very disoriented and shocked because they understand very clearly that without United States support, Ukraine will be defeated,
We are seeing some political factions starting to move,
said Ruslan Bortnik, director of the Ukrainian Institute of Politics I believe Trump doesn’t care about whether Ukraine has elections or not. It’s Putin’s narrative, Putin’s goal. Trump is being used by Putin to impose elections on Ukraine with only one purpose, to undermine us from within. He wants to remove Zelenskyy because he is a symbol of our resistance. Putin understands that an election campaign during times of war will be destructive for our unity and for our stability,
The first steps on the path to a just and lasting peace are incredibly important. We want to move forward speedily, in cooperation with the United States and all of Europe,
Zelensky said on social media platform X The Democrats were desperate to find a reason to impeach Trump that year, for something, anything, and so they glommed onto this."
As Fred Lucas, manager of investigations for the conservative Daily Signal and author of Abuse of Power: Inside the Three-Year Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump, put it I think I should run more often so you can call me more often and we can talk over the phone more often,
the Ukrainian leader told the American president They are not enforcing the sanctions,
On the military front and the intelligence front, the pause that allowed that to happen will go away, and I think we’ll work shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine as we have,
We have taken a step back and are pausing and reviewing all aspects of this relationship,
national security adviser Mike Waltz said Wednesday This is a once-in-a-generation moment for the security of Europe,
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, calling for a “coalition of the willing.”
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