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The Ukrainian president repeated his long-held position that elections in the middle of war would tear his country apart. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said this weekend that his former defense minister was wrong to call for national elections and that holding a vote in the middle of war could divide Ukraine. “Elections right now would be a tsunami for the state that would split Ukraine apart,” he said. Without a cease-fire, which Russia would not agree to, holding elections carried “major risks,” Mr. His comments came after the former defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, who was fired by Mr. Zelensky in July, called last week for wartime elections .
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