New Delhi, Dec. 29 -- Zelenskyy's Martial Law Lifeline: Security Demands Delay Ukraine's Democratic Reckoning

Florida - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has laid bare his deepest fears, without ironclad security guarantees from the West, martial law, and the power it entrenches, will not be lifted. In a stark declaration on Monday, he tied the fate of Ukraine's democracy directly to foreign troops on its soil and monitoring by Western partners, a move that critics decry as a brazen power grab amid mounting pressure to end the war and face the electorate.

"The termination of martial law will occur at the moment when Ukraine obtains security guarantees," Zelenskyy said, quoted verbatim by Ukrainian outlet Novosti LIVE. "Without sec...