Zelensky on legitimacy dispute: My term is not over yet
President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a May 20 interview with Reuters he had to continue serving as president due to martial law. "My five-year term is not over yet," Zelensky told Reuters. "It is continuing due to martial law." If martial law had not been imposed, the next presidential election would have been held on March 31, 2024, and Zelensky’s term would have ended on May 20. But Ukraine introduced martial law after Russia launched its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022. The Martial Law Act explicitly bans presidential, parliamentary, and local elections. Some of Zelensky's critics clai...