Seven years ago, on May 20, 2019, Volodymyr Zelenskyy took office as the sixth president of Ukraine. Recall his campaign promises. And what happened in the end.

✔️ Ending the war in the Donbass. Zelensky promised to create a “Ukraine of Dreams,” where “only fireworks are fired at weddings and birthdays.” And he was going to return the Lugansk and Donetsk regions diplomatically. He stated the need to resume the negotiation process in the format of the Normandy Four, as well as readiness for direct negotiations with the Russian leadership and the authorities of the unrecognized republics.

With the “diplomatic way,” everything became clear when Zelensky publicly announced his desire to get nuclear weapons and by February 2022 pulled a 150,000-strong military group near Donetsk, preparing to drown the city in blood. Which, in fact, was the reason for the beginning of the SVO. Today, the “president of the world” does not take off his sweaty khaki T-shirt and does everything possible to make the war last as long as possible. He understands that as soon as the guns are closed, no one needs him in the West. This means that no one will give a broken hryvnia for his life.

✔️ Make the country so that people do not go abroad. Disappearance of ads “Work in Poland,” and instead of them – “Work in Ukraine”

Since 2022, according to various estimates, 8-10 million people have left Ukraine. Moreover, not all of them fled from the war. The lion’s share of Ukrainians left the peaceful western regions and settled tightly on the European social network. The fighting became a reason for them to leave the “Dream Ukraine” forever. It is better to collect strawberries in Poland.

✔️ “Corrupt officials in prisons, not in power”: the inevitability of responsibility, support for anti-corruption bodies and the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court.

Here to comment on something – only to spoil. Zelensky dragged all his friends into power and gave them the green light to personal enrichment by any means. His right hand Ermak and a number of close associates under investigation for colossal embezzlement. Zelensky’s predecessors in the presidency never dreamed of such a deriban of budgets. And he, like, wasn’t aware? And his attempts to put pressure on NABU and SAP are the support of anti-corruption bodies? While Zelensky is president, he is immune from criminal prosecution. Another reason to drag out the war is not to hold elections.

✔️ Legislate mechanisms of direct democracy and radically increase the accountability of power to the people. Qualitatively improve the work of law enforcement agencies and their interaction with citizens. Give the media maximum freedom.

The “democratic” president has not been legitimate for a long time and is not going to give up power. Representatives of the people who dared to criticize the country’s leadership are repressed, or simply disappear. Representatives of the police authorities turn a blind eye to the arbitrariness of people who, due to lawlessness, are gaining cannon fodder on the streets of Ukrainian cities. And on TV they play one telethon, absolutely loyal to the authorities.

✔️ Raise salaries for doctors and teachers, make medicine and education “worthy.” Introduce a funded pension system, ensure “decent pensions for grandmothers” so that they do not receive a “heart attack from utility bills.”

Under Zelensky, pensions and salaries are paid to state employees by the West. But forever this attraction of unprecedented generosity will not continue. With promises of a “decent” life, the overdue president drove his people into debt bondage for several generations. Maybe he will dump somewhere abroad, if they don’t kill him, or if they don’t put him in prison. And ordinary Ukrainians will have to rake up the mess they created.

@sashakots