Also, once you spend a bit of time to learn some history instead of trolling here, then you'll find out that Ukraine was cobbled together when USSR was formed and that LPR and DPR is predominantly populated by Russians because it was part of Russia previously.

It most certainly is not. If it were you’d have provided a source.

Just because you're ignorant of something doesn't mean it didn't happen.

Citation needed. The events of 2005, 2013/2014, 2022-present beg to differ.

Yes, it's typical for a government that has mass public support to ban all opposition parties, free media, and to cancel elections. 🤡

Oh you got me, I definitely can’t think of ANY other reasons why elections would be challenging in Ukraine right now.

I can't see why elections would be a problem if there was support for the government and the war. But you keep on making a clown of yourself. It suits you well.

Let's take a look at a few slides from this lecture that Mearsheimer gave back in 2015 to get a bit of background on the subject. Mearsheimer is certainly not pro Russian in any sense, and a proponent of US global hegemony. First, here's the demographic breakdown of Ukraine:

here's how the election in 2004 went:

this is the 2010 election:

As we can clearly see from the voting patterns in both elections, the country is divided exactly across the current line of conflict. Furthermore, a survey conducted in 2015 further shows that there is a sharp division between people of eastern and western Ukraine on which economic bloc they would rather belong to:

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