Ukraine's President facing renewed pressure to call wartime elections

from Radio National Breakfast · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Martial law prevents wartime elections in Ukraine - but ousted defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov is calling for a vote, arguing democracy shouldn't be a "peacetime luxury".

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