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.”
The country is suffering from loss of power due to ongoing shelling and Trump wants Ukraine to hold an election. The US can barely pull of a fair election and inform the majority in peace times, yet he wants a country in the middle of a war to elect a new president. If a war started in the US before he had to step down, he’d put elections on hold.