Ukraine's Ambassador to the US on possible discussion of elections in Ukraine: «We are ready for dialogue»
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- Alona Kokhanchuk
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10:19, 05 February, 2025
Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States Oksana Markarova Photo: ukrinformThe issue of the need to hold elections in Ukraine by the end of 2025 has not been discussed with the US side. However, if the administration of US President Donald Trump raises this topic, Ukraine is ready for dialogue.
Ukraine's Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova said this in an interview with Suspilne.
She told the outlet that Ukraine is ready to continue explaining why holding elections during the war is impossible.
«Ukraine and America are free countries. Everyone can speak their mind. If this issue is raised, we are certainly ready for this discussion, as we have done before. We will be very happy if elections are held in Ukraine, because it will mean that we have won this war», Oksana Markarova said.
Earlier it was reported that the United States expressed a desire for Ukraine to hold presidential and parliamentary elections, possibly by the end of this year, if Kyiv reaches a truce with Russia.
In November 2024, Donald Trump's special envoy for the war in Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, presented a new plan for a peaceful settlement of the conflict, which proposed freezing the front line, creating a demilitarised zone, and postponing Ukraine's accession to NATO indefinitely.
As early as January 2025, President Donald Trump instructed retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg to end the war in Ukraine in one hundred days. Almost no one believes that he will be able to do so.