Ukrainian president’s comments came after US president Donald Trump accused him of clinging to power

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is ready to hold a wartime election within the next three months, if Ukraine’s parliament and foreign allies will allow it, after Donald Trump accused him of clinging on to power.

As Shaun Walker writes from Kyiv, Zelenskyy, clearly irritated by Trump’s intervention, said that “ this is a question for the people of Ukraine, not people from other states, with all due respect to our partners”.