Russians and Americans want Zelensky’s skin – Liberation
It is no longer a background noise, it is a refrain. Americans and Russians have acoquinated to have the head of Volodymyr Zelensky, in order to break the spine of the Ukrainian resistance to their standardization plan. Last development, the interview granted by Steven Witkoff, the United States special representative for Russiato the podcast of the ultra -conservative journalist TUCKER Carlson. During the interview, between two dowries and dramatic inaccuracies, the trusted man of Donald Trump declares that elections in Ukraine are « Indispensable », Although the Ukrainian Constitution prohibits any ballot during martial law and that two thirds of voters are against the holding of elections.
The emissary argues that Volodymyr Zelensky agrees with him, which is far from certain, and that he considers the elections, which « Must take place », as « The key to the peace process ». In February 2024, a Ukrainian military intelligence officer, met by Release, had estimated that as early as May 20, 2024, the fifth anniversary of the election of Zelensky, the Russians would begin a « International psychological operation in order to persuade the Western world that at the end of its mandate, Volodymyr Zelensky would no longer be a legitimate president, while the Ukrainian Constitution is very clear on this subject, and that (according to the Russian narrative) it should be replaced, in one way or another ».
Events have accelerated since the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2025. We remember his charge, the day before, treating the Ukrainian president of dictatorso as not to have organized elections. On March 2, the national security advisor Mike Waltz suggested that Zelensky should resign « To give way to a leader who can negotiate with us, and possibly with the Russians ». Synchronously, several doubtful Ukrainian actors come out of the wood. On March 3, Alexey Arestovych, a former close to the Zelensky team at the start of the war, who has resided abroad from where he has never ceased to criticize Ukrainian power, changed the text of his profile on X, writing soberly « Candidate for the presidency of Ukraine ».
On the same day, an anonymous X account bearing the name of « Cillian » relays information according to which the deputy Oleksandr Dubinsky asked for an emergency session of the Parliament to initiate a dismissal procedure against Zelensky after the dispute in the oval office. « It’s huge. Zelensky’s regime collapses in real time ”, he tweet. Elon Musk responds to this tweet of a laconic « Wow! »giving it a huge range. Elected in 2019 in the ranks of the servant party of the people of Zelensky (from which he was excluded), Oleksandr Dubinsky is a liaison agent of the oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, corrupt, odious and vulgar, put under sanctions by the United States in 2020.
Order in January 2024 in Ukraine for « Treshing and dissemination of Russian propaganda », Today in prison, Oleksandr Dubinsky is part of a group of « Ukrainian contacts », The Derkach network, which spray with Russian services and that Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer of Donald Trump, activated in 2019 and 2020 when the American president tried to force Kyiv to launch investigations against the son of Joe Biden. « Dubinsky is an extremely not recommendable personconfirms the political scientist Oleksiy Haran, professor at the University of Kiyv Mohyla Académie. As for Arestovych (who says he is a candidate for the Ukrainian presidencyhe is an adventurer, who says positive things about Russia, criticizes the Ukrainian government from abroad and plays against his own camp. ”
Other known personalities, struck by Hubris, also start to wriggle. Among them, Former President Petro Poroshenkowho often talks about him in the third person, self-tight the successes of the government, even if his European Solidarity Party decides against the principle of elections. Then the former Prime Minister Ioulia Timochenko, indestructiblewhich, in 2017, at the annual event « National Prayer Breakfast » in Washington, where many influential personalities find themselves, had not hesitated to make the crane in the corridor leading to the hope of men in the hope of shaking the hand of Donald Trump and being taken with him. According to Politico, Trump emissaries would have met the Poroshenko and Timochenko teams.
Radio Free Europe even advances that Timochenko probably met Steve Witkoff. According to Andriana Kucher, reporter in the United States for 24 Kanal television, Ioulia Timochenko, visiting across the Atlantic, expressed pro-Russian comments in public. « When you talk about missiles and drones that come across innocent cities and you say that only a woman in power can stop that, are you in mind? » Asks, at the end of a conference, reporter to Timochenko, who is not denied. « If Timochenko is not ashamed to say these kinds of things on stage, it only remains to imagine what she can blow in the ear of her interlocutors behind closed doors », comments the journalist.
« We observe a return of politics in Ukraine, because one day or another, after the end of martial law, there will be elections », estimates Oleksiy Haran. Only, the joint Russian-American assault only boosted the approval rating of Volodymyr Zelenskyspent within a few days from 57 % to 65 %. As for Poroshenko and Timochenko, they can be proud of the highest index of unpopularity of the political class in opinion. In March 2025, 76 % of Ukrainians did not trust Poroshenko and 86 % did not trust Timochenko, according to the polls, the two figures being unanimously considered as personalities from the past.
Zelensky’s only potential rival could be General Valery Zaloujny, now Ukraine ambassador to the United Kingdom, who has a 76 % rating of confidence but has never confirmed political ambitions in public. « According to the polls, if Zaloujny presented himself in the elections, he could prevail against Zelensky, but if Zaloujny does not present himself, it is Zelensky who will prevail », explains Oleksiy Haran, who believes that everything will now depend on the outcome of this troubled game around a ceasefire. Either Zelensky obtains a « Diplomatic victory » who will strengthen his aura, either he is pushed to a « Humiliating ceasefire », a swan song, which could « Reduce the popularity of anyone who signs it ».
