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Ukraine is ready to hold elections in next 90 days if allies can guarantee security, Zelensky says
By Hira Humayun, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Victoria Butenko1 HR 20 MIN AGO
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was in Italy on Tuesday to meet Pope Leo XIV and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Francesco Fotia/Reuters
Ukraine is ready to hold elections in the next 60 to 90 days if its allies can guarantee security for the vote, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday, following criticism from his American counterpart Donald Trump.
Not strong enough to retake Crimea
Meanwhile, Zelensky also acknowledged that Ukraine does not have the strength to take back Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014.“I will be honest – today we do not have the strength for all this, we do not have sufficient support for all this,” he said after being asked whether he had told Putin, during their first meeting in Paris in 2019, that he wants Crimea back and wants Ukraine to be part of NATO.
Zelensky and Putin’s first and only meeting since the Ukrainian leader took office was an attempt toward ending the conflict in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region a little over two years before Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
US President Donald Trump referred to this meeting in his interview with Politico.
“Maybe I said that at the first meeting. And I believe that I was right,” Zelensky recounted before adding that today, Ukraine does not have the ability to get Crimea back.
