As most would anticipate, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected the request for a Ukraine election made by former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.
Zelenskyy noted that Fedorov himself might challenge the ‘new democracy‘ regime of Zelenskyy, and therefore the risks are too great.
(via Politico) – Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday flatly rejected a call by his former defense chief to send the country to the ballot box.
“I believe that during a war like this, elections in general pose major risks,” Zelenskyy told journalists — including POLITICO — behind closed doors.
A vote “right now would be a tsunami for the state, one that would divide Ukraine,” the Ukrainian president said. He added that his strategy is “to bring the country to the end of the war and preserve an independent and sovereign state.”
His remarks come after former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov — ousted from his government role in July following a controversial reshuffle — called for elections earlier this week.
“If our partners offer us specific conditions under which elections can be held … safely, legitimately and democratically,” with the participation of soldiers on the front line and citizens who fled to other countries to escape the war, “then let’s discuss it,” Zelenskyy continued. But “it is impossible under the conditions we have right now, when Putin refuses to agree to any form of ceasefire,” he argued.
Fedorov has emerged as a rival to the current president. In a video address Tuesday, he argued that “people cannot endlessly live in a state where they do not understand why certain decisions are made.” (more)
I see an empty water glass. However, where is the cocaine and little metal spoon.
Or is he slumming it and using a plastic straw now?
Plastic straw? He’s using a rolled up check for $10 billion.
I hear Penn State may have some. Look for a nerdy guy wearing glasses.
If you got bad news, you wanna kick the blues…..Cocaine
Eric Clapton
Did you know that the music for that song is a direct take of a Moody Blues song. No, it wasn’t plagiarism, the Moody Blues approved it.
Never heard of this and I am a huge music fan. What song?
Written by JJ Cale.
J.J. Cale, actually. EC made it famous.
Fedorov’s days are numbered.
In smaller numbers than before he called for elections.
Much smaller.
Somehow….I see him getting sent to the front.
You are looking through the wrong end of the telescope.
…more like bad dates! 🙄
we had to destroy the democracy in order to save it
That is a Democrat/Communist talking point.
Dah!
Death stare and crossed arms from Rubio sez it all without comment.
If looks could kill lil’ Z would be six feet under by now.
And the world would be a better place.
I LOVE this photo. It’s a few months old, from a previous WH meeting.
“Zelenskyy told journalists — including POLITICO — behind closed doors.”
I wonder who is writing his “marching orders”? The statement seems more organized than his usual verbal exchanges that I have heard. I guess he did not want to be televised reading something off a piece of paper, or teleprompter.
Did little z-man say anything at all?
The Ukrainian voters have alternatives to remove Zelenskyy from office that doesn’t involve voting.
I really kinda figured Vlad was going to “vote” him out long before this point…
Maybe now such a “vote” would be appreciated as yet in Ukraine. Earlier it would have made a martyr.
Z is afraid of losing power…and money. That is his “major risk” right there.
Z punches way above his weight. Why is that? 🤔
Ask Chrystia Freeland.
If Z looses the election, where does he go?
I doubt he’ll remain in Ukraine, it’s life-threatening as too many people despise him. Same can be said for his relocation to another country.
And that, IMO, is why he won’t hold elections.
…says the man whose own term ran out long ago and now remains as an illegitimate “president”.
Ain’t “Democracy” grand?
It’s *GOOD* to be King!
King Z
Might as well, Greg…
Though it seems someone has already called dibs on that position…😎
Or signed Mel Brooks.
I never get tired of the photo of SECSTATE Rubio burning his eyes into the little despots head.
He sounds kind of like a dictator to me. Ukraine is not a free country.
“If our partners offer us specific conditions under which elections can be held … safely, legitimately and democratically,”
This is funny for a tyrant who shut down elections and fired prosecutors and shut down news media critical.
Does Ukraine have any young people left from all the forced kidnapping ?
Dope head is just a puppet on a string that deserves a major boom in the night on his head.
This tiny tyrant only leaves forcibly.
If Putin wanted him dead, he would be dead. Therefore, the only solution seems to be for the people of Ukraine to “take matters into their own hands” and give him the Mussolini treatment.
Just a minor detail .. but the “Putin will refuse a cease fire to enable elections” is kind of .. you know .. a lie … Elections are still a cease fire condition required by the Russians, a condition Z-man has refused to accept to date.
Another minor point … elections never result in 100% agreement … so dividing the country is a major waste of gaslighting … and “Millions of refugees” who abandoned the Ukraine during war get to vote, an interesting thought … and the people are so into the war that press gangs are needed to fill the ranks .. press gangs you say and Z-man wants all those press ganged troops to vote ???
Yes the Russians called for elections….knowing Z could not win an election.
The short answer is, Z-man is full of crap.
Trump also asked Z to hold an election.
Anyone started a Go.Fund.Me yet for Federov? You know, just in case he needs 24/7 personal security…
Nah, the Nazis can protect their own.
Are you saying Federov is a Nazi?
Yes
Well wouldn’t that be the ultimate irony if the Nazis turned the tide on the war with Russia.
How do you make God laugh.
Or more likely, I’m just clueless as to what’s happening here.
The rise of the Third Wreck….Seig Heil to the little pervert drug addict……so much in common. Both propped up by out of country banker interests. Any war is a good war to a heartless banker
Nothing says “democracy” like a dictatorship.
The only “major risk” is that he won’t have the votes. Or the ability to steal the election
The globalists are clearly not done with their puppet. Maybe they like his act with his privates and a piano.
I hope Putin calls the Tin Cup Dictator’s bluff and offers a cease fire so Ukraine can hold elections.
UK Prime Minister Burnham is headed to Kiev to meet with Z about long range missiles.
https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-burnham-to-provide-ukraine-with-blueprints-for-long-range-missiles-as-he-travels-to-kyiv-12593360
When Keiv is turned to molten glass will the EU and their predator bankers back down?
Keep poking that bear with a stick and find out.
An event like that would have ramifications for the entire world.
Not having the election is proof that the globalists do not have the wherewithal to rig it in Ellensky’s favor.
0.o
Z Here’s a tip, don’t take any rides on a APC
I have seen midget that are bigger than that asshole. He suffers from that little man syndrome, he so afraid that he going to be caught with all the money and gold he has stolen from the people. Not to mention all the souls that have died and the families that have been destroyed,by this sawed off runt. He needs to be hung
His biggest major risk is losing his head, literally, after losing the election.
Disingenuous comment. If they held an actual election it was a certainty that he would lose. Not a risk, a certainty.
“I believe that during a war like this, elections in general pose major risks,”
Risks? What, like losing the election, and then getting shot by some irate citizens?
“I believe that during a war like this, elections in general pose major risks,”
A war like what? One where the sitting president is highly unpopular, or election during a war in general. If it’s elections in general during a war then maybe FDR might have had a different view than little Z
manboy.FDR enjoyed the support of the people. Even though he enacted a lot of tough decisions it was to get the financial strength back in the country. In 1936 he won almost every state.
Despite what some conservatives would call socialist programs those programs put people to work rather than just handing out money.
He was a disaster and his own Secof the Tresurary so testified.
You sir are imbibing alternate history.
I was referring to the 1944 election results. Should have been more specific in my post.
Zelensky’s mission is to kill as many as he can as long as he can while siphoning as much blood money from the Christian world. He also id doing all he can to usher in and ignite the bolshevick dream of WWIII and another genocidal European War.
War is the bolshevick/Kalergi final solution.
🙏 unceasingly
“mission is to kill as many as he can”
I’m sure that millions of replacement immigrants have already been allocated for the underpopulated “new” Ukraine.
It all seems so familiar.
Frederov must have a base of power to call for elections and Z feels the need to respond to it.
Z has clearly lost the support of his military. Winter is approaching and discontent is high. I don’t know how popular Federov is, but killing him or other brass could spark a military coup or civil war.
Popcorn!
Our tax dollars go to prop up a little dictator for life
Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov did not kill himself…………
It’s good to be the King!
That’s why he doesn’t have s*it all over him!… 😉
To me, looking at Z , there is a strong resemblance to Swalwell.
Pence….
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Hopefully, the fact that Zelenskyy is having to scrape the bottom of the pork barrel meeting with incompetent politicians like Mike Pence means the travesty of Ukraine’s destruction is ending!
Your not VP anymore but do stay as long as they will keep you!
The fact is the American voter does NOT stand with Pence or Ukraine and watching this war monger/coward/traitor is on X doing this just proves why! Pence should be in prison for what he did.
I guess that POS has already spent his 30 pieces of silver
no one will ever vote for you…no matter what you do….
0.o
Pence has such a punchable (is that a word?)((Wordman)) face. And he’s always on the wrong side of everything.
Judas Pence is delusional.
He does not speak for the American people.
Hopefully the seals can bring him in for treason, make that double treason
Turds of a feather…
I seem to remember that Pence was not a big fan of free and fair electoral college elections in the House, at least not a fan of challenges to electors.
Just sayin’.
“…..the urgent need for interceptors.”
There he goes again. Trying to profit by escalating war.
Six Pence None the Wiser.
It’s money laundering time. Pretending to buy and blow up more fake missiles?
Wasn’t the Freeland just in the Ukraine? Didn’t she come back implying she wanted to impact our midterms?
This recent flurry of activity with Pence and Freeland smacks of increasing desperation.
Obviously they need money for their schemes. It seems a good time to watch and document the money flows.
Zelensky is one of the few leaders shorter than Mike Pence. I thought Pence was retired. Do these people never go away? Pence and Zelensky have that in common too.
Disgraced, unelected, Judas-Pence doesn’t speak for USA.
Who paid him to make this trip & how much? Another book deal?
I can’t for the life of me remember any time that Russia openly targeted civilians. Yet, there is ample evidence of Ukraine specifically targeting Russian civilians.
“Benedict Arnold” Pence, there is a special place in hell for you and your war mongering ilk. SPIT.
…steamily walks off soapbox…
unacceptable.
Since mr. vindman lost in florida, maybe he can go back and at least be secretary of defence or something to help out the cause.
The cocaine midget Zalenskyy making demands while meeting with former VP Mike Pence in Kiev. Very strange optics. Pence on CNN “State of The Union” show with Dana Bash. I don’t trust Pence and no question CNN is pure propaganda.
Is Pence planning another run for Prez?
Is he friends with Rubio?
Another short man.
Dude thinks Hitlerish.
Negotiate a two week ceasefire to allow election to take place. Get rid of this little POS.
Anyone else happen to catch on the statement that within a year they would be fighting with robotic. Does that sound like a leader who is even considering ending a war?
The Ukrainian NaziCommunists still haven’t killed off enough of the “Kulaks” to justify holding an election.
Never forget Victoria Neuland:
Trailer – Ukraine on Fire by Roger Stone
Little Z says why end the war, I can be King forever. I still can’t believe some Ukrainian hasn’t killed him yet. He has wiped out an entire generation of young Ukrainian men already.
Womderful.
It’s the old ‘the state is more important than the people’ thingy again.
When the people fear the government, there is tyrany:
when the government fears the people there is liberty.
The USA had an election during its civil war, and during WWII.
USA have mandatory Constitutional Calendar for Elections.
Parliamentary system don’t.
Britain held an election during WW2…
Held less than two months following VE Day.
So war was over
And during Vietnam in 1972. The results overturned by a coup.
Why should those who ran away get to vote?
The “major risk” that he’s fearful of is the same as all unpopular, illegitimate dictators – that the will of the people will finally be expressed. It’s the same reason the Left and the Establishment of this country fight tooth and nail against honest elections.
J
I reject So Called Ukraine! It’s a made up Soviet Republic that wasn’t a country prior to 1991. Sorry I don’t buy into something from 900 years ago with totally different borders.
It is simply baffling to me that that little ‘green goblin’ is still in power.
Tiny—teensy-
cross dressing -💋minuscule weenie! 🌭
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