# Fedorov’s call for wartime elections, explained

https://mins.news/en/item/28594

- The Kyiv Independent, 2026-08-21 15:57 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-wartime-election-debate-explained/

> The Kyiv Independent’s journalists Francis Farrell and Olena Zashko accompanied Ukrainian military medics from the battlefields of war-torn Ukraine to peaceful Swedish forests for a brief mental health retreat.

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