# Zelenskyy says wartime elections could ‘destroy’ Ukraine

https://mins.news/en/item/29783

- Al Jazeera, 2026-08-23 12:19 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/23/zelenskyy-says-wartime-elections-could-destroy-ukraine?traffic_source=rss

> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejects former Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov’s call for a wartime election, calling it a huge risk that could split Ukraine like a “tsunami”. Ukrainian law bans elections during wartime. Zelenskyy also discusses Russian strikes, ballistic-missile defence, satellite communications projects and a $27bn defence funding gap this year.

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