Trump calls for elections in Ukraine: Zelensky’s support drops to 4%
19 February 01:34
US President Donald Trump has expressed support for the elections in Ukraine, noting that support for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy among Ukrainians has “dropped to 4%.” Trump said this during a press conference in Mar-a-Lago, [ komersant] reports
According to Trump, it is not Russia that is demanding elections in Ukraine, but an “objective situation” because there have been no elections for a long time.
“In this situation, when martial law is in effect in Ukraine all the time and the leader of this country has already dropped to 4% in the polls… I think that if we sit down at the table, the Ukrainian people will already decide that there have been no elections for a long time. It’s not Russia telling Ukraine that it needs elections, it’s an objective situation,” Trump said.
Trump did not provide any specific sources for his statistics on Zelenskyy’s rating, which raised doubts about the reliability of the data.
According to a poll by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, as of December 2024, Zelenskyy’s trust among Ukrainians was 52%, which is significantly different from the data cited by Trump.
As a reminder, the United States wants Ukraine to hold elections, possibly by the end of the year, especially if Kyiv can agree on a truce with Russia in the coming months.
Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, said in an interview that the Ukrainian presidential and parliamentary elections, which were suspended during the war with Russia, “need to be held.”
The elections in Ukraine were supposed to be held in March 2024, but since martial law was imposed throughout the country, the voting was postponed indefinitely.
Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that elections without the participation of the military, Ukrainians from the occupied territories and those abroad would not be fair.
