Nigel Farage responds to Donald Trump's suggestion for Volodymyr Zelenskyy's replacement, arguing Ukraine needs an election even during wartime and referencing historical precedents, while also touching upon the legality of elections under martial law.
Q: Do you back Donald Trump saying it is time for Volodymyr Zelenskyy to be replaced as president of Ukraine? Farage replied: Trump and Zelenskyy have a somewhat tempestuous relationship, so [Trump saying Zelenskyy should go] was not any particular surprise. At some point Ukraine needs an election. Of course that’s true if it’s to be a country that aspires to have Western style values. As to when that election comes, we’ll have to see. I mean, we did have an election during world war two, a point that seems to be completely forgotten. But then people’s knowledge of history now appears to be pretty pathetic. Zelenskyy says Ukraine should not hold a presidential election while the war continues, and that it would not be legal anyway because martial law is in force. Farage is right to say that Britain held a general election in 1945 while the war was still going on. But it did take place in July 1945, two months after the war in Europe had finished. The war against Japan did not end until
