Posted on 09/25/2025 5:05:59 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Wednesday that he is “ready” to leave office once Russia’s bloody invasion of his country comes to an end.
“If we finish [the] war with [the] Russians, I’m ready not to go for the second term because it’s not my goal — elections,” Zelensky told Axios in a wide-ranging interview.
“I wanted very much in a very difficult period of time to be with my country, help my country. My goal is to finish the war.”
Zelensky, 47, was elected to a five-year term as president in April 2019. The election scheduled for March 2024 has been postponed indefinitely with Ukraine under martial law following the Russian invasion in February 2022.
Some American critics of Zelensky had seized on the postponed elections to accuse Kyiv’s leader of seeking to enhance his power, with President Trump himself referring to Zelensky as a “dictator” back in February, when the relationship between the two men was at its lowest point.
But on Wednesday, Zelensky acknowledged that his countrymen may want “a leader with … a new mandate” to lead Ukraine into its post-war future.
Zelensky also left open the possibility of holding elections during a cease-fire with Russia, even in the absence of a permanent peace deal.
“During the cease-fire, I think security can give the possibility to have elections,” he said. “It can be so.”
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Jeez, after the war ends there’s no remaining opportunity for him to continue to plundering the incoming wealth. So of course he’ll “step aside”… AND GET OUT OF DODGE with his vast wealth.
He iss ignalling tha he is determined that the war will not end.
Zelensky will be gone soone or later. It’s the natural course of events in the world. Ukraine is not Russia and Zelensky won’t be murdering all his credible political opponents to remain in illigimate power for 25 years.
In fascist countries, Z-man cancels elections.
Hmmm. What say you "short stuff"?
I get that he’s skimmed enough cash to be good for the rest of his life.
The only stepping he’ll be doing is in front of the firing squad when the Ukrainian people who he decimated at the behest of his EU and Blackrock masters finally push him out.
It’s not a choice thing. It’s the Law.
This has been Zelenskyy’s position for quite some time.
Z-Man is essentially irrelevant to how this war goes from here. Even the original decision to fight Russia’s invasion was a collective decision, according to his former political opponents who were present.
Every single Pooty tool and troll seems to miss this.
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