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Former foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba reportedly backed Fedorov’s idea, saying on Tuesday that elections “after war will not be more civilised, than during it.” “We don’t know when [the war] ends. Another observer noted that Fedorov’s refusal to accept another job in Zelenskyy’s government and his election announcement both stem from his “political immaturity” and failure to distinguish between a personal offence and his nation’s wartime needs. “A statesman must tell his own defeat from his nation’s defeat, and the loss of his job from the need to immediately change the country’s entire political construction,” Boris Bondarev, a former Russian diplomat who quit his job in protest of Moscow’s 2022 invasion and is now based elsewhere.
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