Rebecca Kesby

Although one mother has come forward to put forward a GoFundMe, and the person who it was is somebody that I know.

Emergency was an emergency surgery as of last night.

So the gun laws in Canada are, if you're comparing us to the US, they're quite strict.

But it's definitely, we live in a place where there's a lot of hunters.

So there's a lot of people out who have firearms.

They're

All licensed, all have certificates, all store their guns in safes.

The Trump administration has signaled to Zelensky that they want to see the war ended by summer, before June.

And so what we were reporting today was that since last autumn, when talks really began to sort of pick up steam between the Americans and the Ukrainians, leading to these new trilateral talks in the past few weeks with the Russians involved,

is that Zelensky has quietly put into place or gotten the ball rolling on potential national elections, presidential elections that have not been held since before the war, possibly in line with a referendum in which the Ukrainian population would be meant to vote on a peace deal that is agreed during these talks.

And what we reported was not only that this machinery has been put in place, but that the Americans are really pushing it along, saying that they've given this deadline of these votes to be done in Kiev by May 15th.

when the security guarantees that the United States and Ukraine together bilaterally have agreed on would expire.

One big caveat here is that Donald Trump has set numerous deadlines in the past, and we've blown right past several of them.

You're absolutely right about all of that.

It's not possible under the current Ukrainian constitution to hold national elections in martial law in wartime.

But under this plan, what is being discussed is this timeline that we'd see March and April.

spent in the Ukrainian parliament here passing the legislation needed in order to hold these polls in wartime.

But of course, this is a change of tack from Zelensky.

He has said that elections in the current circumstances and before any kind of

ceasefire and peace deal is had should not occur.