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“With his latest statement, former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov appears to have reinvigorated a dangerous debate about elections in wartime Ukraine,” writes Olga Aivazovska, Head of the Board of the Civil Network OPORA, in this op-ed.
“Elections that are neither free nor fair will undermine legitimacy. And elections without adequate protection will be a gift to the Russians,” she adds.