Last week, the popular former Ukrainian Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for elections to be held during wartime Many regard this as the most serious challenge to Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s presidency since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. Zelenskyy, whose five-year presidential term expired in May 2024, has been under pressure from both Washington and #Moscow to hold new elections, but these have been suspended until the end of the war.