{"id":2519,"date":"2026-10-11T20:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T15:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2026-10-11T20:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T15:03:50","slug":"zelensky-says-ukraine-will-hold-elections-if-russia-agrees-to-a-60-day-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2519","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky says Ukraine will hold elections if Russia agrees to a 60-day ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday, in \u200bresponse to critical comments from US President Donald \u200cTrump, that he will organize Ukraine elections if Russian President Vladimir Putin agrees to a 60-day ceasefire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease tell \u200bPutin, give us two months, 60 days \u200bof total ceasefire, 60 days, and we \u2060will organize elections,\u201d Zelensky told ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump \u200bon Saturday criticised Zelensky for attacking Russian oil refineries \u200ba day after the US temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian fuel that were designed to deprive Moscow of revenues \u200bto fund its war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think \u200bit\u2019s time for Ukraine to get a new president,\u201d Trump \u200chad \u2060told reporters at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Zelensky said \u201cit\u2019s up to Ukrainians\u201d to choose their leader and noted that Putin would also like to \u200bchange who is \u200bleading Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>He \u2060said it is easy for Ukraine to be blamed for higher fuel \u200bprices \u201cwhen everybody in the world understands (that) \u200bbecause \u2060of the war in (the) Middle East, the prices are rising.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Sunday, Zelensky said Ukraine was ready to halt \u200battacks on Russian oil refineries \u200bif Moscow ceases its own strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday, in \u200bresponse to critical comments from US President Donald \u200cTrump, that he will organize Ukraine elections if Russian President Vladimir Putin agrees to a 60-day ceasefire. \u201cPlease tell \u200bPutin, give us two months, 60 days \u200bof total ceasefire, 60 days, and we \u2060will organize elections,\u201d Zelensky told ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week.\u201d Trump \u200bon Saturday criticised Zelensky for attacking Russian oil refineries \u200ba day after the US temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian fuel that were designed to deprive Moscow of revenues \u200bto fund its war&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}