martial law

He is due to stand trial later this year for the attempt to put the democratic country under martial law.

He is after all Ukraine's elected leader, and although his term was meant to end last year, he remains president under martial law, which came into place precisely because of Putin's Russian invasion.

An election was scheduled for May 2024, but it was suspended because Ukraine has been under martial law since Russia began its full-scale invasion.

Following Trump's defeat to former President Joe Biden in 2020, the Twitter account urged "secession" if courts ruled against Trump's election fraud lawsuits and made numerous posts calling followers to "support martial law."

Ukraine's elections are suspended under martial law, which has been in place since Russia's full-scale invasion was launched in February 2022.