According to a poll by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS), one tenth are rejecting Washington’s calls to hold wartime elections.
The poll found that 25% of respondents are in favour of having elections if there is a ceasefire with security guarantees, and 57% will vote if only once a there is a final peace agreement.
The US President is pandering to Vladimir Putin’s wants by raising the topic of holding elections whilst there is a full-scale war.
This month Donald Trump said in a meeting with reporters, “how long is it going to be before they (Ukraine) have an election.
“It’s a democracy. It’s been a long time,” Trump said.
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However, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine will hold elections on the condition that there are security guarantees.
Meanwhile in another poll conducted by KIIS found that 75% of Ukrainians have overwhelmingly rejected any US or Russian plan to cede territory and withdraw from the Donetsk Oblast.
The poll surveyed 63% of 547 adults across the country are prepared to continue with the war for as “long as necessary.”
Earlier this week Washington told Ukraine to pull back their troops from Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts close to the eastern border of the proposed demilitarized zone.
The Financial Times reported, citing a Ukrainian official that Donald Trump is not telling Moscow to withdraw troops.
Vladimir Putin held a meeting with military leadership and has ordered that his troops continue to fight and advance.
The US President’s original 28-point peace plan, which was accepted by the Kremlin, had called for a “neutral, demilitarized buffer zone” to be established once Ukrainian troops withdraw from the Donbas region and the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, in preparation for Kyiv to cede territory.
Kyiv has said that the Trump administration is wanting to create a zone which is modelled on the North and South Korea armistice, this was signed 72-years ago, the Kyiv Independent reported.
However, according to the FT the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sees a demilitarised zone as a frozen conflict, this will enable Russian troops to regroup to launch a new offensive.
Putin has ordered that all Russian forces to “continue to carry out war tasks and are advancing confidently across the entire front.”
The Russian dictator wants his forces to continue with the war until all objectives are met within his so-called special military operation.
Putin said during the military briefing, “Commanders of the group of forces must continue to carry out tasks in strict accordance with the plan of the special military operation.”
