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Ukraine’s ousted minister Mykhailo Fedorov calls for wartime elections

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 86 words · By Video by Ava LUQUET
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In a bombshell address posted on YouTube, Ukraine’s ousted defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for elections to be held even as the war against Russia continues, saying the country was gripped by a crisis of governance.

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What happened

In a bombshell address posted on YouTube, Ukraine’s ousted defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for elections to be held even as the war against Russia continues, saying the country was gripped by a crisis of governance.

Why it matters

Ukrainian law prohibits elections while the country is under martial law, which was imposed on February 24, 2022, the day that the Russian invasion began.

Common ground

"This is complex," said Fedorov, arguing that "complexity does not mean impossibility.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 3 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Ukraine’s ousted defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for elections to be held even as the war against Russia continues”
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Multiple independent sources, including France24 and several web search results, confirm that former Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for the establishment of a legal mechanism to hold elections during the war.
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web search NEUTRAL — Mykhailo Fedorov, the former Defence Minister of Ukraine, has called for the nation to hold elections during wartime, marking a substantial challenge to the presidency of Volodymyr Zelensky amid ongoi…
https://www.indianewsnetwork.com/en/former-ukrainian-defence…
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web search NEUTRAL — Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov is calling on Kyiv to establish a legal mechanism for holding elections during wartime, warning that allowing Russia to dictate the timing of Ukraini…
https://tsarizm.com/news/eastern-europe/2026/08/19/former-uk…
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web search NEUTRAL — Mykhailo Fedorov, former Ukrainian Defense Minister, has urged the country to hold elections despite the ongoing war, saying Ukraine needs a mechanism that is "legal, safe, and realistically achievabl…
https://en.thairath.co.th/news/foreign/2953838
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Claim 2: “martial law... was imposed on February 24, 2022, the day that the Russian invasion began”
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Wikipedia and official reports confirm that martial law was imposed on February 24, 2022, the same day the full-scale Russian invasion began.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Presidential elections were scheduled to be held in Ukraine in March or April 2024. However, as martial law has been in effect since 24 February 2022 in response to the full-scale Russian invasion of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Ukrainian_presidential_el…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 24 February 2022, during the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, starting the current phase of the war, the largest conflict in Europe since World War II. By Apri…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukrai…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In Ukraine, the legal basis for the introduction of martial law is in the Constitution of Ukraine, the Law of Ukraine "On the legal status of martial law" (No. 389-VIII from May 12, 2015) and presiden…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law_in_Ukraine
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Claim 3: “Ukrainian law prohibits elections while the country is under martial law”
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Multiple sources, including civil society organizations and reports on the Ukrainian Constitution, explicitly state that Ukrainian law and the Constitution prohibit holding elections while the country is under martial law.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Constitution and legislation of Ukraine prohibit holding elections during martial law, and the authorities continue to legitimately exercise their powers during this period.
https://zmina.info/en/news-en/ukrainian-civil-society-explai…
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web search NEUTRAL — Ukrainian legislation directly prohibits holding elections under martial law. Even if it did allow them, dozens of unsolvable practical and security issues would render it literally impossible to ensu…
https://war.ukraine.ua/articles/not-sacrificing-democracy-wh…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Ukrainian constitution prohibits holding elections during periods of martial law.Elections in Ukraine will be held in 2024 only if martial law is ended by then, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelen…
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/zelenskyy-say-no-elections…
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