The last stab in the heart of the increasingly disconsolate President ofUkraine, Volodymir Zalensky, it came to him from the mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, former boxing champion and his probable challenger in the next political elections, assuming that Zelinsky does not listen to his wife's advice and wants to run again. “We are becoming like the Russia, where everything depends on a man's whim" is the mayor's ferocious accusation to Zelensky, increasingly alone and always frowning. Klitschko's attack is not a surprise because he is a long-time rival of Zelensky but it is a sign that Ukraine's national unity is weakening every day and the President's leadership as well. An associate of Zelensky confided to Time that "the Ukrainian President's belief in the victory is messianic, but we are not winning and telling him so is impossible."
All factors against Zelensky and Ukraine
Unfortunately, the weather has played against Zelensky and Ukraine and the freezing winter certainly does not increase confidence and hope of improving Kiev's political and military prospects. The war in Middle East has shifted the center of gravity of international attention in favor of the Russian dictator Putin which is preparing to triumph in the next elections and which appears deaf to any hypothesis of an armistice with Ukraine, but above all the Ukrainian military counter-offensive has so far not yielded the desired results and winter is upon us. Not only that, but the American and European consensus in support of Ukraine is waning and the financial and military resources available to Kiev are also waning. The "tiredness" of the pro-Ukraine allies, which the Italian prime minister spoke about some time ago Giorgia Meloni, emerges and makes Zelensky feel more and more alone and more and more surrounded, also because, as things stand, despite the thousands of deaths suffered by Ukraine in the ongoing war, there is neither the reconquest of all of the country on the horizon Donbass nor, much less, that of Crimea. “The freezing cold and the bombs, the military front and the diplomatic terrain, the weakened Ukrainian national unity, Russia pushing, neighboring countries doubting (Ed. of Zelensky's strategy), Americans hesitating”: all this – the French writer Emmanuel Tugny writes on LeJournal.info – makes Kiev's winter terribly difficult. And President Zelensky.
