President Volodyymyr Zenskyy has suggested that he is ready to resign from his position as soon as the Russian war in Ukraine ends.
During an interview with Axios On Wednesday, the Ukrainian leader also maintained that his primary focus remains with peace instead of securing a different term.
“My goal is to end the war,” Zenskyy told Barak Ravid in the Axios show after his address at the General Meeting of the United Nations in New York and before he goes back to Kyiv.
When he continued if Ukraine would hold elections during a cease -the fire, Zenskyy was determined.
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“So you tied that if Tomorrow, President Putin corresponds to a cease -the three -month -olds, six months, whatever you go to go for elections in Ukraine?” Asked Ravid. “Yes,” replied Zenskyy.
When asked if he had in mind in peacetime, Zenskyy again suggested that his intention was sidelined as soon as the war was won.
“If we end the war with Russia? Yes,” said Zenskyy, before we clarify that elections were not his personal ambition.
“It’s not my goal, elections,” he explained. “I want it very much, in a very difficult period, to be with my country, to help my country. Yes, that’s what I wanted. My goal is to end the war,” he said.
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Ukrainian President VolodyMyr Zenskyy during the Ukrainian recovery conference 2025 in Roma Convention Center La Nuvola, on July 10, 2025. (Antonio Masiello/Getty image)
The comments from the Ukrainian leader come when his country is under the state of siege, imposed since the full invasion of Russia began in February 2022.
According to the State of Siege, elections cannot be held.
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Zenskyy, chosen for the first time in 2019 in a landslide, would have seen his five -year period in May 2024 if the war with Russia had not started.
Now Zenskyy has been in office for more than six years, which is beyond its original mandate.
