Of course, Putin's goals don't end with Ukraine...
“What’s weird is that your very statement is WHY Zelensky was elected”
True. And he is not able to change that place any more than Trump could root it out in DC. Zelensky also had no real ability to keep the nazis under control. Any policy he implemented had to placate them lest they return to Kiev for another coup.
Lot’s of nice people there, but they have a problem.