Reasoning:

• Ukraine has held regular presidential elections since independence in 1991, including elections in 1991, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2010, 2014, and 2019¹.
• The president is directly elected by popular vote in a two-round majoritarian contest, with international observation missions monitoring these elections²¹.
• The current president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was directly elected in 2019 with 73.2% of the second-round vote, and international observers deemed the election "competitive and credible"³.
• Ukraine's parliament (Verkhovna Rada) is also elected, and while Freedom House rates Ukraine as "Partly Free" due to challenges like corruption and oligarch influence, it acknowledges that elected officials craft and implement policies and that the 2019 presidential election was credible³.
• While the 2024 presidential election was not held due to martial law imposed during Russia's full-scale invasion, this temporary wartime suspension does not retroactively nullify the democratic mandate of Ukraine's elected leadership³¹.
• The claim that Ukraine's leaders are "not elected" appears to be a false narrative that contradicts well-documented electoral history and international election monitoring.

Overall validity: 5%

1. Ukrainian presidential elections - Wikipedia
2. Presidential Election, 31 March and 21 April 2019
3. Ukraine: Freedom in the World 2025 Country Report | Freedom House