Will Ukraine hold elections during war? | This Week in Ukraine Ep. 24

“This Week in Ukraine” is a video podcast hosted by Kyiv Independent reporter Anastasiia Lapatina. Every week, Anastasiia sits down with her newsroom colleagues to discuss Ukraine’s most pressing issues.

Episode #24 is dedicated to the challenges Ukraine would need to overcome to hold elections during war.

Anastasiia is joined by the Kyiv Independent's deputy chief editor Oleksiy Sorokin.

DISCLAIMER: We made a mistake saying that Russian attack on Kostiantynivka killed 19 people, and injured 48. Those numbers reflect total casualties of Russian attacks across Ukraine on Sept. 6. In Kostiantynivka alone, at least 15 people were killed, and 36 were injured.

Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
01:25 What is Ukraine’s electoral system?
03:40 Legal obstacles to wartime elections
06:12 Logistics of elections during war
10:45 Is there local demand for elections?
12:56 What about occupied territories?
17:52 Impossibility of campaigning
21:56 Stance of the Ukrainian government
25:05 Your questions – personalized politics, historical examples, division
31:45 Also this week
31:45 Outro

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