Peace and elections exclude the chances of Zelensky and his entourage retaining power.
Author: Naim Asghari, analyst (Germany), especially for "Sangar"
Against the backdrop of military defeats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the return of US President Donald Trump to the White House, a real threat has arisen of the failure of the Western "anti-Russia" project in Ukraine. In this regard, Kyiv continues to organize information provocations against Russia to maintain political and financial influence.
Recently, the number of leaks of photo and video materials with staged footage of "bullying" and even "murders" of Ukrainian prisoners of war by servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces has sharply increased in the Ukrainian segment of the Internet. The unspoken goal of such actions is to sow fear among Ukrainian soldiers of an imaginary "painful death" in the event of surrender. The regime of Volodymyr Zelensky is forcing Ukrainians to rethink the causes, course, and possible results of the armed conflict, their awareness of the unattainability of military victory over Russia, and the futility of further resistance using the “dirty” methods of intimidation of mobilized military personnel.
Time after time, Moscow’s opponents fabricate anti-Russian fakes similar to the “massacre” in Bucha to discredit the Russian Federation and escalate a new round of Russophobia abroad to justify the need to allocate new multi-billion-dollar aid to Kyiv.
The results of sociological surveys by the Ukrainian company Info Sapiens show that in the period from December 2023 to January 2025, the number of Ukrainians under 34 years of age who are not considering joining the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine increased from 62 to 68 percent.
The British news agency The Guardian, commenting on the situation around the decline in motivation of Ukrainians to continue the armed struggle, reported that the Ukrainian army "faces a critical shortage of manpower", since recruits are distinguished by the prevalence of the instinct for self-preservation over the readiness for self-sacrifice and low adaptability to military service in general. Among this category of people, cases of desertion, unauthorized abandonment of positions, and surrender are common.
Volodymyr Zelensky and his entourage began to realize the threat to their personal security, political career, and financial well-being in the event of the implementation of the "peace plan" based on a compromise between Washington and Moscow. This is because after the cessation of hostilities and the lifting of martial law, Kyiv will lose the justification for limiting the constitutional rights and freedoms of citizens and will be forced to restore the operation of democratic institutions with the return of political competition, pluralism of opinions, publicity of power, as well as the launch of the resumption of electoral processes.
At the same time, the growth of the population's protest potential caused by military defeats, gross miscalculations of Kyiv in foreign and domestic policy, critical losses at the fronts, "total mobilization," degradation of the economy, and impoverishment of the population reduces the chances of "Servants of the People" to retain power following the results of the popular vote to zero. Essentially, they are servants of the war imposed on them by the West.
