The second President of Ukraine (1994-2005) Leonid Kuchma expects the emergence in Ukraine of a political project of war veterans and a separate volunteer political project on the eve of the post-war elections.

"I am really looking forward to the emergence of new political forces, especially two: veteran’s, because this will be the force of those who signed the oath of allegiance to Ukraine with their own blood and will certainly not back down from it. And volunteers, because this will be the force of those who have proven their extraordinary effectiveness in their own work, so it should be even greater if they gain access to the levers of state governance," Kuchma said in an exclusive interview with the Interfax-Ukraine agency.

He expressed hope that such political forces would emerge and, perhaps, unite, since “even today they are united by common goals and efforts.”

The second president noted that "post-war Ukraine will be like it has never been before - with unprecedented national self-awareness and unprecedented destruction of entire regions and industries, with unprecedented pride and unprecedented pain, with an unprecedented demand for social justice." "It will definitely be a country of heroes, but also a country of widows and orphans, the disabled and refugees. Therefore, its political landscape will be different. New electoral niches are already being formed, the contours of new political forces are emerging," Kuchma said.

At the same time, he stressed the inadmissibility of holding elections in 2025 if the war with the Russian Federation has not ended by that time.