Ukraine’s ousted minister Mykhailo Fedorov calls for wartime elections

France 24 reports that Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s former defence minister, posted a YouTube address urging the nation to hold elections even as the war with Russia rages. He warned that the country is facing a governance crisis, but argued that complexity does not equal impossibility. Under Ukrainian law, elections are barred while martial law—enforced since February twenty second, twenty twenty‑two—remains in force, making his proposal legally contentious, and his call highlights a tension between democratic aspirations and the legal constraints of wartime.

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