Overview
- Speaking at Chatham House in London, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi said he will address any political plans only after the war ends and martial law is lifted, calling speculation "pub talk."
- The former commander, now Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK, declined to discuss presidential ambitions despite polls rating him a leading potential challenger to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
- Zelenskyy told AFP it is "not good" to revisit internal disagreements now and said he has not spoken to Zaluzhnyi since the Associated Press interview.
- The president said no one has definitively declared for elections, stressing that such decisions should wait until the fighting ends.
- Zaluzhnyi’s recent AP interview described a 2022 Security Service of Ukraine search at a temporary command post in Kyiv, a disclosure that revived attention on the rift.