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Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is ready to hold a wartime election within the next three months , if Ukraine’s parliament and foreign allies will allow it, after Donald Trump accused him of clinging on to power.

Though clearly irritated by Trump’s intervention, the Ukrainian president promised to explore avenues for holding a vote in the coming months. “Since this question is raised today by the president of the United States of America, our partners, I will answer very briefly: look, I am ready for elections,” Zelenskyy said

Trump made the comments in a rambling interview with Politico published earlier yesterday. “They haven’t had an election in a long time. You know, they talk about a democracy, but it gets to a point where it’s not a democracy any more,” he said.

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