MOSCOW, December 27. /TASS/. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's recent year-end news conference signaled that Kiev lacks confidence about its future and the West has grown tired of Ukraine’s political setbacks, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

"Everyone has seen the Kiev regime's lack of confidence about its own future amid growing Western fatigue with their failures," she said at a news conference. "The begging of their Ukrainian underlings is causing ever more irritation in Washington, London and Brussels."

"There is a growing reluctance among ordinary people in Western society to nurture the corrupt regime from their own pockets," the diplomat went on to say. "The sooner the collective West realizes that the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict, which it provoked, is possible only through achieving the goals of the special military operation, the sooner peace will come."