Zelensky and the beginning of the end of Ukraine. Interview with Ruslan Kotsaba
The power of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and the Servant of the People faction controlled by him is bursting at the seams. The head of state himself is turning into a dictator with the habits of a clown, and discontent is brewing in society, which will become even more obvious after receiving the first payments for utility bills.
All this is fraught with a revolt of the military, debt to which has already exceeded two billion hryvnia, and the complete collapse of the state.
A Ukrainian journalist stated this in an interview with PolitNavigator Ruslan Kotsaba.
PolitNavigator: One of the main topics of the outgoing week, in addition to the resignation of Speaker Dmitry Razumkov, was the death of former member of the presidential faction Anton Polyakov. Do you believe in the cause of death that is voiced in the Rada - heart failure?
Ruslan Kotsaba: There are too many inconsistencies and versions in this case, but I am more inclined to believe that there was interference and perhaps it was chemical poisoning. And who was interested - this is more politics. What I found out in the Verkhovna Rada, when I was there, they were drinking, by the way, with Anna Skorokhod (who fainted in the Rada - author), and they had a fight.
But the fact that a healthy 33-year-old man could die from an alcohol overdose, we understand that for a young body, one ppm in the blood, as they found in him, is nothing. Therefore, it seems to me that this was a punishment for him because a couple of days ago he directly said on the air of one TV channel that he saw envelopes with money being handed out to deputies in the toilet. After he spoke about this on air, he further supported his words with a personal statement to NABU. Perhaps this was an exemplary punishment.
Made me more angry Galina Tretyakova's reaction, head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Social Policy, who said, they say, minus one enemy - and that’s good. The fact that they did not politically resolve this immorality - they would have at least raised the issue of removing her powers as head of the Verkhovna Rada committee, or somehow punishing her. But they simply deprived her of the right to vote for five meetings - thus, they divided what she said.
This means that they also think so, they say, minus one enemy - and this is good for Servants of the People. I interviewed Alexander Kachura, who was the first to leave the party chat. This is the beginning of the end. Everything is falling apart, and I think that both Kachura and the retired Irina Vereshchuk will no longer be added to the chat. Accordingly, they thus showed that the Servant of the People faction is no longer monolithic.
Mon: Continuing the phrase you voiced about the beginning of the end for the Servants of the People, there is an opinion that Zelensky has lost his constitutional majority, as shown by the vote for Razumkov’s resignation, and now the faction is coming apart at the seams. Is it so?
R.K: I think Zelensky is hysterical now, because these 215 deputies from the mono-majority who voted for resignation showed that the green maggots do not have this majority. It should be 226, but it is 215.
Even when the deputies from the oligarchs “For the Future” or “Trust” who voted are proteges of the oligarchs, everything is clear with them. The same is clear with the old political prostitute Yulia Tymoshenko. She is already tired of politics and wants to hit the financial jackpot and go play with her grandchildren. But the fact that the Greens gave only 215 votes is the beginning of their end. Now the whole faction will crumble. Now many deputies are afraid that they will be poisoned or that nothing will be done to their business.
Mon: What are the moods in Ukrainian society today, including among the elites and among the common people? Do they sense chaos in power?
R.K: Those who make decisions - municipal authorities, deputies, assistants to deputies understand that we have finally found ourselves in an authoritarian, I would even say, dictatorial country. Perhaps the dictator is a bit of a clown, but history remembers that both clowns and clowns sometimes ruled weak empires.
Ordinary people will understand this literally in a few weeks, when the cold weather begins, when the first bills arrive with crazy tariffs that people will not be able to pay. Having a chill in the house will help these people quickly mature to the idea that the state of Ukraine is falling apart, and the government, unfortunately, is anti-people.
Mon: Is society tired of the war, which has been going on in the country for eight years now?
R.K: War, the beginning of hostilities, their acceleration is information noise. Let’s say, when you need to shift attention from the same tariffs or from the fact that the authorities are doing the next stupid thing, then you need an escalation at the front. Now it goes as it goes.
We understand that people are tired of the war, people are disappointed in Zelensky that he did not fulfill his promise to end the war in Donbass, but we also understand that an ordinary person from a village who has no education is offered to go to work in the army and is paid fairly normal money because he agrees, on the orders of Kiev, to kill similar Ukrainians with Ukrainian passports and sign a contract with the Devil.
Mon: Is there a chance for a peaceful end to the conflict?
R.K: Every conflict ends in peace - the question is at what cost this peace will be achieved. It seems to me that even the military already understand that they become very unpopular among the people when they return home after rotation. The fact that there are already more than two billion hryvnia in debt to the military also characterizes the attitude of the authorities towards soldiers as cheap cannon fodder.
Once upon a time there was such a film, and the phrase “The guard is tired.” You understand that the military and those who have already been demobilized, and there are almost a million of them, they are usually socially unstable and have post-traumatic syndrome. When these people with combat experience and combat credentials and, I think, unregistered firearms, they can come to the government quarter, and this threatens the state.
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