Commentators on Russian state television also questioned why Ukrainians had not revolted against President Zelensky.
Chernyshov's comments came as Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine, hasafter it was liberated from an eight-month occupation by Russian forces, in yet another blow to the Kremlin. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky walked the streets of the city on Monday, hailing it as"the beginning of the end of the war."
"There is no uprising, when it seems there should be," said former Ukrainian politician Vladimir Oleynik.Is Zelensky trying America's patience?Babayan said support for Zelensky—who he described as"this guy in a T-shirt"—was high in Ukraine"if you trust Kyiv polls." However, Oleynik cautioned against trusting polls during wartime.
"When objects of the infrastructure get their pumpkins pummeled every day, when civilian population has minimal casualties, but their living conditions in winter unbearable, ambulances aren't functioning, the old people are dying, as well as the children... for Zelensky, this will be an argument," said political scientist Vladimir Sergiyenko.
However, Babayan concluded that Russia's strikes against Ukraine's infrastructure must continue because negotiations with Ukraine"won't end well for us."
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