Zelensky tells @lindseygrahamsc that he supports holding Ukraine's next presidential elections (due in March 2024) but only if Kyiv's Western partners pay the $5-billion cost, send monitors to the front lines, and create voting infrastructure for refugees in the EU. https://t.me/stranaua/120355
@kevinrothrock
this IS NOT what he's saying.
he's making a sarcastic comment about the impossibility of holding elections while the country is at war, under partial russian occupation and russian terror bombing.
what's the point to twist President #Zelenskyy's remarks?
@elCelio @kevinrothrock This. If not sarcastic, certainly rhetorical. He is not proposing to actually do those things. The post (in the original) says as much in the last sentence.
@pieist @kevinrothrock in fact, the Ukrainian Constitution does not allow to hold elections in times of war
As of last March, 25-30% of Ukraine's population were displaced. 8 million have left the country entirely. 20% of its land is under hostile military occupation, and civilians even in uncontested cities are under nightly threat of missiles and drone bombardment.
The US held elections while at war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, etc. Because of course things remained perfectly comfortable at home. This is certainly not the case in Ukraine.
