Both the US and Russia have questioned the legitimacy of Vladimir Zelensky whose presidential term expired last year
Ukraine will hold a presidential election, US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff has told journalist Tucker Carlson.
Vladimir Zelensky’s five-year presidential term expired in May 2024, after which he refused to call new elections, citing martial law. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he no longer considers Zelensky a legitimate ruler and argued that his current status could be an obstacle to signing a definitive peace.
In February, Trump labeled Zelensky “a dictator without elections” and claimed that he was deeply unpopular at home.
In an interview published on Friday evening, Carlson asked Witkoff, one of Trump’s main mediators between Kiev and Moscow, if he thought that Ukraine would hold elections.
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