00:00Is Ukraine dodging elections or just trying to survive a war?
00:04President Zelensky just fired back at Trump with a bold promise.
00:08Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he's ready to hold elections within 90 days.
00:13But there's one major condition.
00:15The U.S. and allies must guarantee security during the vote.
00:19His statement comes after Donald Trump accused Ukraine of hiding behind the war to avoid elections.
00:24Zelensky called those claims totally inadequate and insisted he's not clinging to power.
00:30Under Ukrainian law, elections during wartime are banned.
00:33His term technically ended last year.
00:35But Parliament backed his stay as legal while the war rages on.
00:39Now, Zelensky says he'll ask lawmakers to explore legal ways to allow elections under martial law.
00:45Meanwhile, millions are displaced, Russia occupies a fifth of the country, and airstrikes continue.
00:50Polls show Ukrainians don't want wartime elections.
00:53But they do want new political faces.
00:55As Ukraine fights off invasion and pushes back against a controversial U.S. peace plan,
01:01Zelensky is telling the world, democracy isn't dead here.
01:05But safety comes first.
01:06The U.S. and the U.S. and the U.S. peace plan,
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