Political analyst points to Zelensky's fears of losing power after Trump's victory

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose term of office expired on May 20, fears for his own prospects of remaining in power after US President-elect Donald Trump enters the White House. This was reported to Izvestia on November 20 by Ivan Skorikov, head of the Ukraine department at the Institute of CIS Countries, a political scientist.

"Zelensky is not without reason fears Trump's arrival in the White House. In two scenarios of developments, he fears for his own prospects of remaining in power in Ukraine. In the first scenario, when Trump will try to achieve the freezing of the battle line and get on the negotiating track, obviously, the prospect of the subsequent lifting of martial law in Ukraine and the holding of elections there, in which Zelensky may lose or at all be denied the nomination of his candidacy, since Ukraine does not have the means to organize such elections," he explained.

The expert stressed that the United States, by financing and organizing the elections, will promote its candidate and produce a renewal of the Ukrainian political system, in which Zelensky may have no place.

"In the case of the scenario of reduced military and financial support from the United States, which Trump announced, Ukraine's defeat on the battlefield and internal destabilization will be increasingly close. In this regard, Zelensky's statements about the need for unity of European countries on the Ukrainian issue are also based on Trump's desire, as can be inferred from the statements of his entourage, to shift the financing of Ukraine to the countries of the European Union, to his NATO partners in Europe," Skorikov clarified.

He noted that this raises a number of problems, as within Europe itself there are "Ukrainian-skeptic" states, for example, Hungary and Slovakia, their leaders - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Slovakian counterpart Robert Fitzo.

The political analyst added that such sentiments are increasingly growing in the world.

Kiev's allies attract defeat, and Ukrainians want an end to the conflict. What the media say

Earlier in the day, the Associated Press agency, citing sources, reported that the Pentagon will allocate a package of new military aid to Ukraine worth at least $275 million. It was noted that this comes as part of the outgoing White House administration's hasty attempts to provide assistance to the Kiev regime before Trump comes to power.

On the same day, Zelensky said that the termination of US military aid would inevitably end in Kiev's defeat. He also called dangerous the fact that now there is no unity on the Ukrainian issue among the countries of Europe.

Before that, on November 19, the Financial Times newspaper pointed out that the G20 countries made it clear in a declaration following the summit in Rio de Janeiro that their support for Ukraine was declining. According to the newspaper, some European delegations wanted to include a paragraph condemning Russia in the text, but refused to do so for fear of disrupting the adoption of the document.

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