Holding a wartime election in Ukraine while active fighting with Russia continues would “destroy” the country by splitting ​Ukrainians, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

His comments, released to reporters on Sunday, ‌were Zelenskyy’s first on the subject since ousted former Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for a wartime poll in a bombshell address last week, report Max Hunder and Dan Peleschuk at Reuters.