Will bill on elections be ready by end of February: What Zelenskyy says

Commenting on remarks by Davyd Arakhamia, head of the Servant of the People faction in the Rada (the parliament), about preparing a draft law on elections by the end of February, Zelenskyy said that "everything depends on the negotiations and achieving the desired results."

"First of all, the 20 points of the plan, because if we talk about a referendum, then if anything is put to a referendum, it would be only the 20-point plan. But in any case, it is being considered as part of a comprehensive package," he said.

The president also noted that the peace plan is accompanied by bilateral security guarantees from the US, as well as a package for Ukraine’s recovery.

"I think that if we manage to do all this in January, then February could likely become a working month in terms of changes to legislation. This also depends on our lawmakers, because they must demonstrate work and tangible results — changes to election legislation, the electoral code or relevant legislation, as well as amendments to the law on referendums," he emphasized.

Therefore, according to him, it is still too early to discuss this issue in detail; the results in the negotiations are needed first.

What Arakhamia said

Earlier, Davyd Arakhamia, head of the Servant of the People faction in the Rada, described the end of February as an "internal desired deadline" for drafting a bill on holding elections in Ukraine during wartime.

According to him, the work could take quite a long time, as each member of the working group on the draft law has their own position that needs to be taken into account.

The Ukrainian authorities stated their readiness to hold elections after US President Donald Trump questioned the state of democracy in Ukraine.