Zelensky's opponents fear he's ready to sell out to Russia
KYIV, Ukraine — Washington may be obsessed with the impeachment inquiry over President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, but it was far from the minds of a few thousand protesters who gathered on a recent frosty night in Kyiv to vent their anger at their own country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, over his peace overtures to Russia.
Domestic political opponents are concerned that Zelenskiy, having no clear U.S. diplomatic backing, may be too willing to make concessions to Moscow in the talks. Any widespread perception that he has done so could weaken him politically, hampering his ability to follow through with his anti-corruption efforts.
Story continuesIn the worst-case scenario, they said, Zelenskiy would give amnesty to rebel leaders and grant sweeping autonomy to the breakaway regions, while allowing Russian forces to linger in or just outside Ukraine even after any political settlement. Analysts saw the comments as self-serving, in that Kolomoisky stands to lose billions of dollars under a banking sector overhaul backed by Western governments. Zelenskiy issued a statement distancing himself from the comment.
By distancing himself from Zelenskiy in the negotiations, as stressed by many of the security professionals who testified in the recent impeachment hearings, Trump has raised doubts about how far he will go to support Ukraine and made it harder for the Ukrainian government to defend the concessions it is making to end the war.
“They don’t think he is worthy of being president,” Yakovina said of Zelenskiy, who before his election as Ukraine’s leader played a president in a television series. They see him “as a clown from a television show. They are doing everything so he fails.”
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