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The Ukrainian elections are rigged. They were using mail in ballot boxes and drop boxes way back in 2014. CIA meddled in the Ukraine election.

Ukraine election 'reversed democracy', OSCE says 29 October 2012 https://archive.is/Auq4i

International observers say Ukraine's election has been a backward step for democracy, marred by "the abuse of power and the excessive role of money".

"Considering the abuse of power, and the excessive role of money in this election, democratic progress appears to have reversed in Ukraine," said Walburga Habsburg Douglas, a Swedish MP who headed the OSCE mission.

Hundreds rally in protest over "stolen" Ukraine election NOVEMBER 5, 2012 4:24 AM https://archive.is/rMtu2

Despite this propaganda claiming it was the 2012 election that was stolen, it is more likely that the CIA funded and organized the Euromaidan protests. Jew Open Society was involved because they are experts at organizing protests such as antifa and BLM.

The presidential election of 2004 brought Ukraine to the brink of disintegration and civil war. Cleared to seek a third term as president by the Constitutional Court, Kuchma instead endorsed the candidacy of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, who was also strongly supported by Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin. Yushchenko—running on an anticorruption, anticronyism platform—emerged as the leading opposition candidate, but his campaign was prevented from visiting Yanukovych’s stronghold of Donetsk and other eastern cities. In September Yushchenko’s health began to fail, and medical tests later revealed he had suffered dioxin poisoning (allegedly carried out by the Ukrainian State Security Service), which left his face disfigured. https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/The-Orange-Revolution-and-the-Yushchenko-presidency

A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War https://jacobin.com/2022/02/maidan-protests-neo-nazis-russia-nato-crimea

In 2014 Ukraine, great power gamesmanship, righteous anger at a corrupt status quo, and opportunistic far-right extremists toppled the government in the Maidan Revolution. Today’s crisis in Ukraine can’t be understood without understanding Maidan.

To halt this drift to the West, Putin performed a one-man good-cop, bad-cop routine, offering Yanukovych a no-strings-attached loan the same size as the IMF’s, while squeezing him with what amounted to a mini–trade blockade. With the EU failing to offer anything that would match the catastrophic loss of trade with Russia that Ukraine was looking at, Yanukovych made the calculated choice to go with Moscow’s offer. In November, he abruptly reneged on the EU deal, sparking the protests that would topple him from power.

Actual quote from the WP interview.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/13/zelensky-washington-post-interview-transcript/

Q: Will there be parliamentary elections in the fall?

A: If we have martial law, we cannot have elections. The constitution prohibits any elections during martial law

It's not his choice to make. The constitution of Ukraine prohibits it. The Russia Today article that is the source for OP's image actually states that as well but that would of course not support OP's shitty rage bait attempt.

So let's see what happens in Russia when martial law is declared.

With the introduction of martial law, elections and referendum are not held, and the powers of elected bodies of power, local authorities and officials are automatically extended. The main powers to ensure martial law are concentrated in the hands of the Russian President.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law_in_Russia