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Wartime elections would 'destroy' Ukraine, says Zelensky

Wartime elections would 'destroy' Ukraine, says ZelenskyWorldPing

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said in remarks made public Sunday that wartime elections would be a "tsunami" that would "destroy the country".

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