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Posted on 11/20/2025 10:48:18 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Ukrainian president’s campaign promises of peace and public integrity look wobblier than ever.
In 2019, Volodymyr Zelensky swept to power in a shocking landslide victory, taking 73 percent of the run-off vote. He won on a platform with two major planks: first, implementing the Minsk Agreements and making peace with Russia, and second, fighting high-level corruption in Ukraine’s government. Both planks are now in splinters. The Minsk Agreements are dead, Ukraine and Russia are almost in their fourth year of hideous war, and the scandal of high-level corruption has crept into Zelensky’s innermost circle.
Upon being elected, Zelensky told reporters that he would “reboot” peace talks with separatists in Donbas and that “we will continue in the direction of the Minsk [peace] talks and head towards concluding a ceasefire.” But it was not to be.
Ultranationalist leaders defied Zelensky and warned that fulfilling his campaign promises would lead to protests and riots. Dmytro Yarosh, the founder of the ultra-nationalist Right Sector paramilitary organization, threatened that, if Zelensky were to pursue a ceasefire, “he will lose his life. He will hang on some tree on Khreshchatyk boulevard if he betrays Ukraine and those people who died in the Revolution and the War. And it is very important that he understand this.”
But it is also now known that no one ever intended the Minsk Agreements to work. Each of Putin’s partners in the Minsk process, including then Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, France’s President François Hollande and Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko have confirmed that the Minsk Accords were a deception designed to lull Russia into a ceasefire with the promise of a peaceful settlement while actually buying Ukraine the time it needed to build up an armed forces capable of achieving a military solution.
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Hard to keep campaign promises when an evil country invades ...
When was he ever raveled?.................
He’s a lying thug. Tbf, so is Putin, but his constituents still want him; not so much Zelensky. He won’t allow elections, the corrupt coward.
They were invaded long before Russia invaded in early 2022. They have been invaded since the day they became a nation apart from the USSR.
Did he make it back home yet, from his most recent European tour?
They were invaded by the Vikings, among others.
Good to see. the Russian Trolls are happy .
Like the Evil Dictator Putin ever had a free election .
lets stop posting the bs here .
Good Idea, You First!
Zelensky had the chance to make peace within a week of the conflict but no, the little rat decided to instead throw native ukrainian men into a grinder (btw Zelensky is not even Ukrainian) and sell his country to Blackrock, and now we are getting every day more and more info on the current corruption scandal
Yeah, he’s a work. Delusional and probably hopped up cocaine and media his reports. His hands are so bloody that he can’t play his penis piano anymore. “Out, out foul spot,” should be his last words.
Putin is literally Hitler!
He has several mansions to show for his efforts if he manages to get out of Ukraine alive.
Have you ever considered that if Putin hadn't decided to invade Ukraine, then the current war in Ukraine would not have happened?
You forgot the part about elections being banned during times of war by Ukrainian law.
Have you ever considered that if Victoria Nuland hadn't engineered the 2014 color revolution the current war in Ukraine would not have happened?
And Putin "had the chance" to not invade Ukraine, just like he has the chance every day not to kill more Ukrainian civilians, women, and children. Putin could "make peace" any day he wants to, but he won't. Putin is the cause of the fighting.
Do you really think that some secret group of people in the USA are actually controlling Putin?
Ukraine didn't start the war, Russia did.
By your logic she actually controls what Putin and the Russian military do.
If Putin's actions were and are somehow determined by what Victoria and her friends say, then he really isn't the leader of Russia, but Victoria is.
Do you see how dumb your theory is?
And that's before you realize that the protests in Ukraine which led to their president resigning were protests by Ukrainians - hundreds of thousands of them - most of whom don't speak or read English. And there was no "coup" in Ukraine.
You are a dishonest person. No further interaction will be entertained.
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