Posted on 05/24/2024 6:55:07 PM PDT by Mariner
(Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had no legitimacy following the expiry of his five-year term and this would raise a legal obstacle if Russia and Ukraine were to hold peace talks.
With Ukraine under martial law in the third year of Russia's full-scale invasion, Zelenskiy has not faced elections despite the expiry of his five-year term this week - something he and Ukraine's allies deem the right decision in wartime.
Putin is ready to halt the war in Ukraine with a negotiated ceasefire that recognises the current battlefield lines, Reuters reported on Friday, citing four Russian sources, but is ready to fight on if Kyiv and the West do not respond.
At a televised press conference during a visit to Belarus, Putin said Zelenskiy's status was problematic.
"But who to negotiate with? That's not an idle question... Of course we realise the legitimacy of the incumbent head of state is over," he said.
Ukrainian officials dismiss any notion of Zelenskiy lacking legitimacy in a time of war.
Ruslan Stefanchuk, speaker of Ukraine's parliament, said this week that anyone questioning the president's legitimacy was an "enemy of Ukraine" spreading false information.
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Putin is 100% correct here.
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Pot calls kettle black.
Hitler says UK’s Churchill lacks legitimacy after term expired.
Go Vlad. He needs to go on Tucker Carlson and do an interview. . . . oh wait .
“Putin is 100% correct here.”
It wouldn’t surprise me if Russia finds a way to ‘remove him from the action’.
The Confederate States managed to have elections, even though they were worse off by 1863.
Elections to the Confederate States Congress were held from May to November 1863
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