Zelenskyy 'ready' to exit office if war ends, open to elections in ceasefire
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has suggested he is ready to step down from office once Russia’s war on Ukraine ends.

In a Wednesday interview with Axios, the Ukrainian leader emphasized that his main priority is to achieve peace, rather than seeking re-election.

“My goal is to finish the war,” Zelenskyy told Barak Ravid on The Axios Show following his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York and before heading back to Kyiv.

When pressed on if Ukraine would hold elections during a ceasefire, Zelenskyy was firm.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2025 at Roma Convention Center La Nuvola, on July 10, 2025. (Antonio Masiello/Getty Image)

The Ukrainian leader’s remarks come as his country is under martial law, imposed since Russia’s full-scale invasion started in February 2022.  

Under martial law, elections can’t be held.

Zelenskyy, first elected in 2019 in a landslide, would have seen his five-year term end in May 2024 if the war with Russia had not started. 

Now Zelenskyy has been in office for over six year which is beyond his original mandate. 

Fox News Digital has reached out to Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office for comment.

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