Ukraine 'ready for elections' if partners guarantee security, Zelensky says47 minutes ago Share Save Joel Gunter , Kyiv and Mattea Bubalo Share SaveWatch: What do Ukrainians think about a presidential election? Ukraine is "ready for elections", President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, after US President Donald Trump repeated claims Kyiv was "using war" to avoid holding them. "The issue of elections in Ukraine, I believe, depends first and foremost on our people, and this is a question for the people of Ukraine, not the people of other countries. "They talk about a democracy, but it gets to a point where it's not a democracy anymore," the US president told Politico. There is no widespread public support in Ukraine for elections, Anton Grushetsky, director of the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, told the BBC.