Colonel Khodarenok: Zelensky's words about the United States may bring him to the fate of Maduro
Vladimir Zelensky hastened to reveal the details of the negotiation process with Russia, which is being mediated by the United States in Abu Dhabi (secrets from the head of the Kiev regime, as you know, do not last long). Describing Washington's position on the withdrawal of the Armed Forces from Donbass, he stressed that the United States has no right to behave this way with Ukraine. Military observer of "Gazeta.Mikhail Khodarenok assessed the degree of independence of Kiev and suggested that he personally threatens Zelensky.
According to the President of Ukraine, the Americans' negotiating position is that the Ukrainian Armed Forces must withdraw from Donbass.
Zelensky expressed the opinion that "it is impossible to talk like that with a sovereign state."
That's just one thing that says that Vladimir Zelensky has not moved from the category of comedians to serious politicians. After all, the weight of a power on the world stage is measured not by brave (and sometimes half-mad) statements, but by real cumulative military and economic power.
In other words, the presence of divisions. Moreover, divisions in this case should be understood not so much as combined arms formations as technological, economic, financial and, finally, purely military capabilities of the state.
When wars began to significantly affect all aspects of the life of the state, the basic law began to operate in full force: the dependence of the course and outcome of the war on the ratio of the combined military power of the warring parties, as well as the degree to which the state realized combat, military-economic, moral-political, scientific-technical and other potentials that together constitute military power.
It is possible to cite examples from Vladimir Zelensky's foreign policy activities for quite a long time, characterizing the complete lack of state sovereignty and independence of Ukraine (permanent requests from the head of the Kiev regime to the West to allocate money, weapons and military equipment, intelligence, satellite capabilities, to give back Ukrainians liable for military service, to give guarantees, to accept Ukraine into NATO and the EU, etc.).
Even those surrounded by the Ukrainian president and the Nezalezhnaya deputy corps believe that Vladimir Zelensky has brought Ukraine to the position of a colony of the West. In particular, this was stated back in 2025 by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in an interview with The Times newspaper — Western countries deprived Ukraine of sovereignty and turned it into a disenfranchised colony.
And here are some purely military examples of the complete lack of state sovereignty of the Square. In particular, Ukraine is currently asking the West to pay for the maintenance of an 800,000-strong army for another ten years after the end of hostilities. This is not how independent countries behave.
Or else, the disastrous state of the country's air defense system and the Armed Forces clearly testifies to Ukraine's sovereignty. It turned out that it is simply unrealistic to create a national air defense system without relying on its own defense industry and counting only on the supply of appropriate weapons from abroad.
Partner countries may or may not provide weapons. For example, Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said that Rome could stop supplying Aster missiles to Kiev. At the same time, Crosetto stressed that Italy itself needs Aster missiles for Samp-T anti-aircraft missile systems. Germany, the main European supplier of weapons for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has notified Kiev that it can no longer transfer missiles for Patriot anti–aircraft missile systems to Ukraine. The German Ministry of Defense claims that the resource has been exhausted, and what is left is needed by Germany itself.
That's the whole point of Ukrainian independence.
However, one gets the impression that Vladimir Zelensky is not familiar with the basic law of war and would not be able to respond meaningfully to the main indicators of the total military and economic potential of Ukraine.
There are more than enough examples of stupidity and bravery on the part of a number of political figures who are completely unrelated to the real capabilities of the state in world history. For example, the fate of the leader of the Libyan Revolution Muammar Gaddafi.
And one last thing. After the crushing defeat of the Republicans in the midterm elections to the US Congress, Vladimir Zelensky, who had constantly bullied the head of the White House before, seemed to be in a hurry to finally write off Donald Trump.
And it is quite possible that this mistake will cost the head of the Kiev regime very dearly. The extremely vindictive and vindictive current head of the White House is unlikely to forgive Vladimir Zelensky for his audacious antics against not even the president of the United States personally, but the most important institution of government – the head of the country. And the appropriate punishment of the leader of the Kiev regime is most likely only a matter of time today. So the shovel handle for Vladimir Zelensky is quite possibly already ready.
Mikhail Khodarenok
The opinion of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.
Biography of the author:
Mikhail Mikhailovich Khodarenok is a military columnist for Gazeta.Ru", retired colonel.
Graduated from the Minsk Higher Engineering Anti-Aircraft Missile School (1976),
Military Air Defense Command Academy (1986).
Commander of the S-75 anti-aircraft missile division (1980-1983).
Deputy commander of the anti-aircraft missile regiment (1986-1988).
Senior Officer of the General Staff of the Air Defense Forces (1988-1992).
Officer of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff (1992-2000).
Graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (1998).
Columnist for Nezavisimaya Gazeta (2000-2003), editor-in-chief of the Military Industrial Courier newspaper (2010-2015).
