President sharply criticises proposal, saying ‘elections right now are a tsunami for the state that will split Ukraine’ Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said holding elections in Ukraine during wartime would risk splitting the country at a time when Russia is amassing ballistic missiles and considering wh...
Source: [Guardian World](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/23/ukraine-election-wartime-risk-russia-zelenskyy)