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I think it is good for democracy. That's the beauty of a solid democracy, you have more than one person potentially running,
A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left. In the meantime, we are successfully negotiating an end to the War with Russia, something all admit only "TRUMP," and the Trump Administration, can do,
But that's only half the story,
Skorkin added, citing polls showing The appropriate conditions will come, and then I, as someone serving in a government position, will be able to answer such questions,
he told reporters, Ukrainian online publication Strana reported on Wednesday I hate to say it, but he's down at a 4 per cent approval rating."
On Tuesday during the signing of Executive Orders at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, Trump claimed of Zelensky I think we need to take the heat down from what has become a very heated conversation in public over recent days
Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, the culture secretary said I think Vladimir Putin started the war,
The prime minister expressed his support for President Zelensky as Ukraine's democratically elected leader and said that it was perfectly reasonable to suspend elections during wartime as the UK did during World War II,
A modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a war that couldn’t be won, that never had to start,
Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social Putin started this war. Putin committed war crimes. Putin is the dictator who murdered his opponents. The EU nations have contributed more to Ukraine. Zelensky polls over 50%. Ukraine wants to be part of the West, Putin hates the West. I don't accept George Orwell's doublethink."
Representative Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican, posted to X on Wednesday I love Ukraine, but Zelenskyy has done a terrible job, his Country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died – And so it continues.....,
Trump concluded in a post to Truth Social on Wednesday Donald Trump's favorability rating is actually HIGHER than it ever was the first time around."
The White House's Rapid Response 47 account posted to X on Sunday ... ABC's Jon Karl We saw this disinformation. We understand it comes from Russia.”
Mr Zelenskiy later said of the US president’s comments Trump and Putin are trying to bully Zelensky into having an election in order to install a pro-Moscow president.”
A former head of the British Army, Lord Dannatt, warned He refuses to have elections, is very low in Ukrainian polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden 'like a fiddle',
When you see the enemy, kill him before he tries to kill you or your comrade.”
General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi told troops at a bootcamp in England In the midst of war, it is impossible to predict whether Ukrainians will reelect President Volodymyr Zelensky, as election outcomes depend on multiple factors—including the list of candidates, the success of both information and disinformation campaigns, and the course of the war itself. As of December 2024, 52 percent of Ukrainians trusted President Zelensky."
The numbers tell us that out of all the civilian politicians that might be potential candidates, he [Zelensky] is by far the front-runner. That is an undisputed empirical fact. If we put in some very popular generals, they may or may not poll at around the same rating that he does. Either way, he would be in the runoff at the very least. He remains the most popular politician in Ukraine, and any suggestion otherwise is an attempt to manipulate facts on the ground."
If the goal of talks on potential reelection is to suggest that removing him would pave the way for a weak or pro-Russian candidate—one willing to legitimize Ukraine's territorial dismemberment, undermine its future as an independent democracy, and ultimately facilitate its subjugation to Russia—this is a grave miscalculation. If, through information manipulation, a candidate who embraces this path were to gain power and attempt its implementation, it would likely result in yet another revolution."
Suggesting that it is even remotely possible to hold an election when there hasn't been a cessation of violence, and that a peace has been reached—it's not possible to hold an election safely or even logistically."