{"id":20182,"date":"2026-08-23T13:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/23\/zelensky-warns-wartime-elections-dangerous-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T13:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:15:20","slug":"zelensky-warns-wartime-elections-dangerous-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/23\/zelensky-warns-wartime-elections-dangerous-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky Warns Wartime Elections Would Be Dangerous for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said holding elections during the war under current conditions would be \u201cvery dangerous\u201d for Ukraine and could fuel instability in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to Agence France-Presse, the remarks came after Ukraine\u2019s former defence minister called for a vote to be held. In comments published on Sunday, Zelensky warned that elections in wartime could have serious consequences for his country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that in a war like this, elections in this form are a big risk,\u201d he said. Zelensky also added: \u201cElections right now are a tsunami that will split Ukraine apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has been under martial law since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion, a situation that has made decisions on the country\u2019s political and electoral processes especially difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zelensky warns that holding elections during wartime would be very dangerous for Ukraine and could deepen instability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}