Zelensky rejects wartime elections, saying vote would 'split' Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that holding elections during the current war would pose a threat to the country. France 24 reports that this statement follows a controversial call for an election from his former defense minister. A summer opinion poll by the Kyiv Institute of Sociology found that only fifteen percent of those surveyed want a vote to be held at this time.

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