MOSCOW, December 18. /TASS/. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is preparing to flee to his masters in the United States, which largely explains his actions aimed at pursuing US interests, namely getting Ukraine entangled in a military conflict with Russia, turning the country into a proving ground for Western military equipment, and refusing to negotiate with Moscow, Viktor Medvedchuk, former leader of the now-banned-in-Ukraine Opposition Platform-For Life party, said.
Medvedchuk, who now leads the Other Ukraine movement, notes that it was recently reported that the United States had developed a plan to protect Zelensky, under which his family would be provided with a mansion in Florida for $20 mln, and be granted US citizenship.
"Zelensky is hatching a plan to escape from Ukraine. He is doing this precisely when he is turning into spent political material. His rating inside the country is plummeting. The West does not want to give him any more money. He is needed neither for war nor for peace. This might be the right moment to bring him to justice <...>. But Plan B is working. Zelensky is being promised he will be saved by his masters," Medvedchuk wrote in his column on the Smotrim.ru website, adding that the current Ukrainian leader's unprofessionalism has brought about this state of affairs.
This scenario, he says, "answers the question why Zelensky has turned from the president of peace to a symbol of war, opted for Russophobic war mongering and categorically opposed negotiations with Russia."
Medvedchuk emphasizes that getting into a military conflict with Russia is a crazy gamble for any country. Naturally, no NATO country is eager to step into the fray.
"But Zelensky not only went for this adventure, but he has actively promoted it at all stages. Zelensky did everything to trigger this conflict and to keep it going as long as possible," Medvedchuk writes. Now, he says, "it is clear that by pushing Ukraine to war, Zelensky had guarantees from the United States."
"That is, having received power from the hands of the people, he betrayed these people and swapped it for an expensive mansion in Florida and US citizenship for himself and his family," he continues.
Zelensky has gone to great lengths to pay for this mansion: he arranged the largest military conflict in Europe since 1945 and helped the US to give a boost to its military-industrial complex and reshape the European energy market in its favor.
"For all these US interests, Zelensky paid with the lives of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Ukrainians, the fate of millions of refugees, people who lost their homes and loved ones, and Ukrainian statehood, which today de facto no longer exists either in economic or political or legal terms," Medvedchuk emphasizes.
But Zelensky is not the sole problem, says the leader of the Other Ukraine movement. Any average Ukrainian politician today thinks the same way. Those who are in charge of Ukraine's destiny today "have not peace and the prosperity of their people on their minds, but only a mansion abroad," he says. "For the sake of these mansions Zelensky and his ilk will not stop at committing any crime, any vile, sleazy act, and any humiliation in front of their masters. It’s another question, however, that that there simply aren’t enough mansions to go around for everyone, and it is not even certain that Zelensky will be able to move into his someday: the situation is becoming ever more threatening for him. Florida is far, far away. He may end up not even making it there," Medvedchuk concludes.