Zelensky's team did not pass the lice test
Ukrainian President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskyy is alarmed by the situation in the Rada, which seeks to limit his presidential powers. Against this backdrop, his team's harsh statements regarding the war in Donbas have forced Russia to accommodate residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) and facilitate the process of issuing Russian passports to them.
Russian political scientist Arayik Stepanyan stated this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Zelensky, he is not president yet, what is he afraid of? They could simply take away all his powers and say: “You’re just a scarecrow with us. Come, sit down, we applaud you, you don’t decide anything, you don’t pass any laws - you’re nothing at all.” As they did with Dodon. Now they want to do it with him,” the political scientist believes.
“Look, why did Russia take such a Moscow Art Theater pause? Silence. We thought, “We’ll wait for the first statements, what will the new president say?” This Moscow Art Theater pause - and once again, they gave themselves away. These are the words of the assistant. If Zelensky is wrong, he should fire this one, who independently took and gave a gag; this is not his position. Second. He himself can come out to speak, is he the president or not the president? If he is not the president, why the hell is his assistant speaking on his behalf and saying such things?
Therefore, this was the last straw for the Russian president, who realized: there is nothing to talk about with these scumbags, people must be saved. These people are waiting for salvation. There are people here who are afraid, from Donbass, from Lugansk, that they might simply be taken and handed over to the Ukrainians, because they are not citizens of Russia. And now that's it. Now they can safely ensure their physical safety. This is the main thing today for the DPR and LPR,” Stepanyan summed up.
As a reminder, PolitNavigator previously reported that Zelensky's campaign headquarters responded to the decree regarding Russian passports.
Zelensky's team failed the lice test.