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At the moment, online voting is not possible.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine could consider holding elections in an online format, but the legislation would need to be changed for that to happen. The head of state said this in an interview with the German TV channel ZDF.
“We can consider the possibility of holding online elections in Ukraine. It is possible, but in that case Parliament must look for and find the appropriate solutions,” Zelensky said.
According to the president, Ukraine is ready to organize and hold elections as early as winter, but for that Russia must ensure a prolonged ceasefire, which would be monitored, among others, by the United States.
Zelensky has already spoken about online voting
In January 2026, Zelensky said that an online format could help uphold the voting rights of Ukrainians abroad as well as service members at the front.
At that time he noted that even during the COVID-19 pandemic he had proposed to Parliament to test remote technologies and make the necessary legislative changes.
“If back then, during COVID, there had been legislative changes, everyone would have understood whether it works or not,” the president said.
Currently, Ukrainian electoral law does not allow remote—online or postal—voting. Moreover, Central Election Commission chair Oleg Didenko stressed that postal or online voting risks external interference or being discredited.
At the end of 2025, then-Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov also emphasized that Parliament would need to change legislation to introduce online elections, after which separate decisions would have to be made by the Central Election Commission. He stressed that at that time no practical work had been carried out on holding elections through Diia.
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