He said it cost 5 billion hryvnia ($135 million) to hold elections in peacetime. "So I told him that if the US and Europe provide financial support ..."He added, "I will not take money from weapons and give it to elections. Zelenskiy said he told Graham that election observers would have to go to the trenches. "I told him: You and I should send observers to the frontlines so that we have legitimate elections for us and for the whole world." "They are defending this democracy today, and not to give them this opportunity because of war - that is unfair.

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Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Lindsey Graham, Kyiv's, Vladimir Putin, Natalia Moseichuk, Graham, Lindsey, Zelenskiy, Richard Blumenthal, Elizabeth Warren, You've, Nick Starkov, Elaine Monaghan Organizations: Top, Russian, European Union, Republican, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Europe, Washington