{"id":1166178,"date":"2026-08-24T07:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T07:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1166178\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T07:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T07:07:22","slug":"a-tsunami-for-ukraine-zelensky-rejects-wartime-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1166178\/","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018Tsunami\u2019 for Ukraine: Zelensky Rejects Wartime Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Zelensky discussed the defense budget deficit during a summit with Nordic and Baltic leaders in Kyiv on Sunday, where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/en\/news\/spilna-deklaraciya-lideriv-ukrayini-j-krayin-pivnichnoyi-yev-105989\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">leaders<\/a> of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden agreed to continue to provide military and financial support.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham is set to visit Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/britain-is-100-behind-you-prime-minister-andy-burnham-visits-kyiv-on-ukrainian-independence-day-for-first-international-trip\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Monday<\/a>, in his first international visit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cRussia should be in no doubt of our resolve. We will not back down until there is a just and lasting peace,\u201d Burnham said in a statement Monday.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Successive polls have shown a lack of public interest in holding elections during the war. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiis.com.ua\/?lang=eng&amp;cat=reports&amp;id=1624&amp;page=2\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">latest<\/a>, conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology from July 20 to Aug. 3, shows that 57% of Ukrainians believe elections should be held after fighting has ended, down from 69% in March. Experts have previously said that the invasion, which Russian President Vladimir Putin launched in 2022, nixed the possibility of holding safe and secure elections in Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zelensky discussed the defense budget deficit during a summit with Nordic and Baltic leaders in Kyiv on Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1166179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7654],"tags":[33,2000,299,28423,77354,657],"class_list":["post-1166178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine","tag-elections","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-news-desk","tag-overnight","tag-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117149227151512717","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1166179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}