Zelenskyy says ready to hold Ukraine elections if Russia offers 60-day ceasefire

NEW: Zelenskyy says he is ready to hold Ukraine elections if Russia agrees to a 60-day ceasefire, responding to Trump's criticism of his leadership and strikes on Russian oil refineries.

Zelenskyy just put elections on the table, with one condition attached.

Give Ukraine a 60 day ceasefire, he says, and he's ready to hold a vote. He said it here, in an interview, and the framing matters. This wasn't a policy rollout, it was an answer to Donald Trump, who's been hammering his leadership and criticising Ukraine's strikes on Russian oil refineries.

Remember, Ukraine hasn't voted since the full scale invasion, martial law suspended elections, and critics have used that against him for years. So this is Zelenskyy calling the bluff. You want a vote, fine. Make Moscow stop shooting for two months and you'll get one.

Which quietly moves the burden across the border. If elections don't happen now, the man blocking them isn't sitting in Kyiv. He's sitting in the Kremlin, and everybody just heard the price.

This is Sara White, reporting for HIT.