MOSCOW, 23 Aug. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will be overthrown or killed because he is not in the mood to negotiate peace with Russia, ex-CIA analyst Larry Johnson said on Judging Freedom YouTube channel.
«I think the most likely scenario is «Coup and Zelensky's loss of power. The second possible option is to kill him. I don't believe that Zelensky will change his mind and say: «Okay, let's negotiate (with Russia. — Approx. ed.),» the expert predicted.
Johnson said that because of the actions of the Kiev government, Ukraine is experiencing a real demographic and humanitarian catastrophe: 13 million people left the country, 400 thousand of the remaining 27 million died in battles.
«In World War II, when the US population was 150 million , we lost only 472 thousand people. Realize. We had seven times more population than Ukraine, and still they lost almost as much as we did in the whole four years of the war,” says the former analyst.
Earlier, adviser to the head of Zelensky’s office, Mikhail Podolyak that there can be no negotiations with Moscow, and Kiev is against any scenario of a ceasefire, since this will mean the actual victory of Russia.
As noted in the Kremlin, there are no prerequisites for the transition of the situation to a peaceful course now, an absolute priority for Moscow — achieving the goals of the special operation, at the moment this is possible only by military means.They also added that Russia highly appreciates the efforts of all countries that are trying to bring the solution to the conflict in Ukraine in a peaceful direction, but so far this is impossible.