VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-08-23
“I believe that in a war like this, elections as such are a huge risk,”
Volodymyr Zelensky · said 2026-08-23 · reported 2026-08-23
Volodymyr Zelensky explained the dangers of holding elections during the ongoing war.
This quote was mechanically extracted from the cited article and verified as an exact substring of the source text before publication. Attribution follows the article's own wording.