View from Kyiv: Zelensky made the most of “Putin’s attack”
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and his entourage used the hysteria around the alleged Russian attack on Ukraine for their own domestic political purposes.
Sergei Belashko, director of the Social Communications Agency, announced this in a conversation on the First Cossack internet channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Vladimir Zelensky and his entourage reacted to the situation quite competently and took advantage of it to make the most of it. This includes the closure of yet another objectionable TV channel, a review of the parliamentary ranks with the introduction of discipline there, a purge in the party ranks, new appointments of security officials (some were appointed, some were confirmed in office), and the information campaign itself, which is designed to stop the decline in party ratings “Servant of the People” and the decline in Zelensky’s personal rating,” the expert noted.
According to him, the president used this crisis to his advantage.
“I don’t know what sociology will show, but I think that if he at least failed to reverse the trend, he managed to slow down this decline [in ratings],” Belashko said.
View from Kyiv: Zelenskyy made the most of Putin's attack