# Zelensky on Elections, a 60-Day Ceasefire and Calls to Step Down

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2111912853284528129
- Source account: [@OlgaBazova](https://x.com/OlgaBazova)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:43
- Published: 2026-10-19
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A2iTeLiRuCnU/en/zelensky-on-elections-a-60-day-ceasefire-and-calls-to-step-down

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A2iTeLiRuCnU/en/zelensky-on-elections-a-60-day-ceasefire-and-calls-to-step-down) President Trump has called for you to step down.

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A2iTeLiRuCnU/en/zelensky-on-elections-a-60-day-ceasefire-and-calls-to-step-down?t=3) Now, you have said that i- if Russia gave Ukraine sixty days of peace, your country would organize elections.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A2iTeLiRuCnU/en/zelensky-on-elections-a-60-day-ceasefire-and-calls-to-step-down?t=10) I wanna be very clear, President Zelensky, are you willing to step down as the leader of your country?

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A2iTeLiRuCnU/en/zelensky-on-elections-a-60-day-ceasefire-and-calls-to-step-down?t=20) We need half a year, half a year after this war will end to prepare for elections.

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A2iTeLiRuCnU/en/zelensky-on-elections-a-60-day-ceasefire-and-calls-to-step-down?t=27) This is not only the law, this is the security measures.

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A2iTeLiRuCnU/en/zelensky-on-elections-a-60-day-ceasefire-and-calls-to-step-down?t=31) But it's after the war. I said what we need minimum, uh, if we don't have ending the war, and if Trump and Putin want me to make elections, of course, first it's a, it's a choice of our people. But if they really want, I said give us minimum sixty days of ceasefire without any kind of other negotiations, just sixty days,

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A2iTeLiRuCnU/en/zelensky-on-elections-a-60-day-ceasefire-and-calls-to-step-down?t=57) and we will try our best to change our law.

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A2iTeLiRuCnU/en/zelensky-on-elections-a-60-day-ceasefire-and-calls-to-step-down?t=60) We will try our best to prepare some infrastructure, some security infrastructure. But trust me, it's, it looks absolutely dangerous and unbelievable because we need fair choice. We need that our soldiers will have possibility to vote because it's, it's, it truths.

[1:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A2iTeLiRuCnU/en/zelensky-on-elections-a-60-day-ceasefire-and-calls-to-step-down?t=81) They, they have to vote because they really defend our country. And that's what, what I said.

[1:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A2iTeLiRuCnU/en/zelensky-on-elections-a-60-day-ceasefire-and-calls-to-step-down?t=88) If you think that I don't want elections, it's not truth, and it's not fair, and everybody understand it in the world.

[1:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/A2iTeLiRuCnU/en/zelensky-on-elections-a-60-day-ceasefire-and-calls-to-step-down?t=95) I mean, the minimum in Europe, and I'm sure in the United States, it's goes... Yeah, please. Sorry.