Trump says Ukraine needs to hold elections because Zelenskyy’s approval rating has allegedly dropped to 4%
US President Donald Trump believes that presidential elections should be held in Ukraine, as, according to him, the level of trust in incumbent President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has allegedly fallen to 4%.
He said this during a press conference in Mar-a-Lago, Censor.NET reports.
Trump believes that it is not Russia that is demanding elections in Ukraine, but an ‘objective situation’ because there have been no elections for a long time.
"In this situation, when martial law is always in effect in Ukraine and the leader of this country's approval rating has already fallen to 4%... I think that if we sit down at the table, the Ukrainian people will already decide that there have been no elections for a long time. It's not Russia telling Ukraine that it needs elections, it's an objective situation," the US president said.
However, Trump did not explain where he had obtained such data.
A poll conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology in December 2024 shows that 52% of Ukrainian citizens trust President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, while 39% of Ukrainians said they did not.
