Zelenskyy says he is ready to resign once the Ukrainian war ends completely

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested that he was ready to withdraw from his duties once Russia war against Ukraine will end.

During an interview Axios On Wednesday, the Ukrainian leader also maintained his main objective remaining peace rather than obtaining another mandate.

“My goal is to finish the war,” Zelenskyy told Barak Ravid in the Axios program after his address at the United Nations General Assembly in New York and before returning to kyiv.

When he pressure if Ukraine would hold elections during a cease-fire, Zelenskyy was firm.

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“So, do you commit yourself that if tomorrow, President Putin accepts a three-month-old ceasefire, six months, everything you will advance to go for elections in Ukraine?” Ravid asked. “Yes,” replied Zelenskyy.

When he was asked if he planned to lead Ukraine in peacetime, Zelenskyy again suggested his intention to withdraw the war won once.

“If we finish war with Russia? Yes,” Zelenskyy said before clarifying that the elections were not his personal ambition.

“It’s not my goal, the elections,” he said. “I want this, in a very difficult period, with my country, help my country. Yes, that’s what I wanted. My goal is to finish the war,” he said.

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The remarks of the Ukrainian leader are intervening that his country is a matter of martial law, imposed since the large -scale invasion of Russia began in February 2022.

Under martial law, elections cannot be held.

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Zelenskyy, elected for the first time in 2019 in a landslide, would have seen its end of five years in May 2024 if the war with Russia had not started.

Now, Zelenskyy has been in office for more than six years, which exceeds his original mandate.

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