Ukraine's Zelenskiy tells ABC he will organize elections if Russia agrees to 60-day ceasefire
Zelensky tied the vote to a reciprocal halt in fighting and said Ukraine would also stop strikes on Russian refineries if Moscow did the same.
- On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated Ukraine could hold elections if Russian President Vladimir Putin agrees to a 60-day total ceasefire, countering President Donald Trump's recent calls for new leadership.
- Trump said on Saturday that "it's time for Ukraine to get a new president," though Zelenskiy noted Ukraine's constitution prohibits elections under martial law.
- "Please tell Putin, give us two months, 60 days of total ceasefire, 60 days, and we will organise elections," Zelenskiy told ABC's "This Week."
- Zelenskiy linked the recent lifting of sanctions on Russian diesel to a Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia that killed 20 people, including three children.
- As Russia has not publicly responded to his ceasefire offer, Zelenskiy told ABC News that "it's up to Ukrainians" to determine their own leadership.
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It was announced on Sunday by Trump, but Zelensky knew nothing about it and the Russian attacks continued.
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U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his claim that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an energy ceasefire. On the 12th (local time), while on his way to a midterm election campaign rally in Ohio, President Trump responded to a reporter's question at the White House asking, "It is said that neither Russia nor Ukraine agreed to an energy ceasefire," by saying, "They agreed. Do you know why? Because I said, 'You agree.'"
(Washington = Yonhap News) Correspondent Baek Na-ri = U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his claim that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to an energy ceasefire.
Zelensky responds to Trump and says it is up to the Ukrainians to change their leader. President of Ukraine guarantees that the country is fulfilling the energy truce announced by the US, unlike Russia.
Ukrainians do not accept being elected president either in Moscow or Washington. Every foreign attack returns him popularity in a country where his own citizens rule out elections under Russian bombs. Read
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