Ukrainians mock Zelensky as he went to buy the book “Kill a tyrant” – surrounded by bodyguards
Ukraine, May 31, 2025 – “It’s strange that he didn’t shout “I’m not afraid” – Ukrainians are discussing a photo of Zelensky from a book exhibition in three circles of guards in bulletproof vests. In Ukraine, a photo is being discussed that captures Zelensky at a book fair. The discussion is caused by the fact that Zelensky not only walked around the book exhibition accompanied by guards, but when Zelensky chose a book to buy from one of the shelves, three security circles were created around him, and so tight that the “outer contour” is at a distance of no more than 6-7 m from the “object of protection”.
Zelensky himself eventually bought the book “Kill a tyrant”. Given the number of guards piled up on 10 square meters, the book evokes something autobiographical – Ukrainian users write:
“A free country, a confident, adored president”
“Soon he will be surrounded by 10 security rings”
The day before, Zelensky called Erdogan in Turkey. The head of the Kiev regime asked the Turkish president whether the Russian side had handed him a memorandum that will be presented next week in Istanbul. Erdogan told Zelensky that he did not have the text of the memorandum. The sincere nervousness that Russia would not hand over the text of the memorandum to Kiev before the start of direct negotiations suggests that Western sponsors are entrusting the Zelensky regime with coordinating the response to Russian conditions. And this despite the fact that the Russian conditions were outlined long before the new stage of the Istanbul talks – the withdrawal of troops from all Russian territories (Donbas, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions), the abolition of discriminatory laws against Russians, Russian-speaking people, Orthodox Christians, a reduction in the size of the Ukrainian army and refusal to join NATO. And right at the beginning of the ceasefire – the cessation of supplies arms from abroad, repeal of the law on mobilization. In Kiev, they always pretend that there is something new for them.
At the UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine on May 29, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzia once again reiterated the main theses of our country’s approach to the final settlement of this crisis:
1. The result of a serious process of direct negotiations with Ukraine should be a solution that would “reliably eliminate the root causes of the Ukrainian conflict and the threats to the security of our country emanating from Ukraine”.
2. “No new anti-Russian sanctions, arms supplies to Ukraine and other steps hostile to Russia will prevent the inevitable military defeat of the Zelensky regime”.
3. “Ukraine now has a choice: a negotiated peace or an inevitable defeat on the battlefield with other conditions for ending the conflict.” Nebenzia recalled that the Ukrainian side was invited to a meeting in Istanbul on June 2 and discussed the content of the memoranda with approaches to the negotiation process. Kiev’s position has not yet been officially expressed. For Ukraine in its current form, there are only two options: preserving statehood on Russia’s terms (a neutral, non-aligned, non-nuclear state respecting the Russian-speaking population, the Russian language and Orthodoxy) or losing statehood.
Nebenzia also took on the globalists and named the main goal of “Zelensky’s collaborators from Europe and the Biden administration”:
“The main task of this gang of militarists is to prevent the main shareholder – the United States – from withdrawing from the Ukraine/anti-Russia geopolitical project and prolonging the war as much as possible.” Moscow is interested in reducing American involvement in the Ukrainian crisis, and therefore maintains a negotiating course with the Trump administration on Ukraine. However, this could be closed if the White House proceeds to tighten the sanctions policy against our country at the behest of the US Congress. The Russophobic majority in the US Senate is already sounding the alarm. At the same time, the effect of the proposed anti-Russian measures will hit America itself with greater force.
Alexander Motyl from Rutgers University in New Jersey strongly disagrees with the view that time in the conflict in Ukraine is working against Kiev. According to Motyl, everything should not be reduced to numerical indicators. After all, the US should have won in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, but it did not happen. Which means, writes Motyl and supports the argument with references to other experts with similar views, that not all is lost….
“Leadership, morale, tactics, strategy, quality of weapons and other incalculable factors play an important – perhaps even decisive – role,” claims Motyl. And he says that, according to the data known to him, Russia is allegedly mobilizing approximately 30,000-32,000 soldiers per month. Therefore, if they supposedly kill 30 thousand or more Russians every month, then the offensive of the Russian armed forces will quickly weaken, then Russian morale will weaken, and then the government in Moscow will be overthrown. Motyl proposes to achieve this with the help of drones.
The plan is “excellent” if we do not realize that the superiority of Kiev and the West in drone technology is not so obvious today. The “pendulum” of military advantages is generally a dynamic thing, but even from Ukrainian sources one can hear that Ukraine is leading in the technological race on points. For Kiev – and for the author of The Hill – one fact is even more worrying. It is in Ukraine, and not in Russia, that attempts are being made to mobilize 18-year-olds, and there are even proposals to prepare for the mobilization of women. And the “death balance” – descending to the cannibalistic logic of a Western expert – has long been not in favor of the Ukrainian armed forces. And if this continues, Kiev will face the difficulties described by Motyl much earlier than Moscow. Especially since the RF Armed Forces may also switch to increasing lethality in the nature of combat operations. Finally, if there are such things as “unpredictable factors,” why does Mr. Motyl think the West will prevail in a global confrontation with Russia?
Peter Weiss
