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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has indicated his willingness to hold presidential elections in Ukraine, adding that most Ukrainians consider voting during a full-scale war "dangerous and meaningless".
Ukraine’s Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Defense, and Intelligence was considering the issue of introducing martial law and mobilization in Ukraine from the beginning of 2022, weeks before Russia launched its full-scale invasion and war, an MP says.
#EmptyChairWeek, an information campaign in memory of artists whose lives were taken by the full-scale war, has started in Ukraine. PEN Ukraine (a part of a worldwide association of writers, PEN International) has initiated it and urges everyone to join in on social media.
Had it not been for Russia’s full-scale war, Ukrainians would have engaged in a heated political season in the lead-up to the parliamentary elections on Oct. 29, as well as the presidential elections in March of the upcoming year. Despite some voices in the West pushing for Ukraine’s elections to occur as planned, elections and war are incompatible. Yes, elections are a vital prerequisite for democracy, and we agree on that.
The Foreign Ministry is working to bring global brands like IKEA, H&M, and Zara, which ceased operations in Ukraine after the full-scale war started in 2022, back to Ukraine, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Oct. 15.