Ukraine is due to hold elections by Oct. 29, but political activity is suspended under martial law and a vote seems impossible given Russia’s occupation of a fifth of the country.
KYIV — As Russian forces continued to bombard regions across Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday signed legislation extending martial law and a general military mobilization until mid-November. If martial law is not lifted, it would require postponing national parliamentary elections scheduled to take place this fall.Under Ukrainian legislation, martial law must be prolonged every 90 days — a process put into motion on the first day of Russia’s invasion in February 2022.
, Zelensky said, “If we have martial law, we cannot have elections. … If there is no martial law, then there will be [elections].”While many countries manage to hold elections during wartime, Ukrainian officials say this is impossible, given that the country is fighting for its existence, with roughly 20 percent of it occupied by Russian forces and millions of people displaced. That democracy continues to function is an accomplishment in itself, they say.
Ukraine’s military general staff said in a Facebook post Thursday that Russian forces in the previous 24 hours had launched eight missiles, 82 airstrikes and 76 multiple rocket launcher attacks the previous day against “Ukrainian troops and various settlements,” across the Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson regions.
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