Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is planning to announce preparations for a spring presidential election alongside a referendum on a prospective peace deal with Russia.
Details on the preparations will be made public on February 24, according to the Financial Times, which cited Ukrainian and European officials involved in the planning.
Reuters reported last week that under a framework being discussed by US and Ukrainian negotiators, any peace deal would be submitted to a referendum by Ukrainian voters, who would simultaneously vote in national elections, adding that officials had discussed the possibility that the national election and referendum could occur in May.
It comes as a Russian drone strike on the Ukrainian city of Bogodukhiv killed three children and their father.
