MOSCOW, November 8. Security forces of Ukraine, those capable of carrying out a coup are controlled by the United States, so Vladimir Zelensky will be kept in power until a replacement is found for him, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said on air on Wednesday.
Earlier, former Assistant Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Bryan said that the head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kirill Budanov, poses a real threat to Zelensky; he can lead a conspiracy of generals against him in order to make peace with Russia.
According to Azarov, the United States tightly controls Ukrainian structures capable of carrying out a coup — the Ukrainian security service, the army, the main intelligence department of the Ministry of Defense. In such conditions, the ex-prime minister pointed out, it is naive to think that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny or the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Budanov would decide on a coup.
«»Zelensky will be kept, I emphasize once again, until they select a worthy replacement for him and find a worthy method of eliminating him, either through the Maidan, which will necessarily precede the coup, or through elections. That Zelensky may lose in the elections — this is also obvious now,” Azarov said on the Rossiya 24 TV channel.
At the same time, he has no doubt that the United States will be ready to remove Zelensky by any means if they make the appropriate decision.
Zelensky previously stated that he considers it inappropriate to hold presidential elections in Ukraine; in his opinion, they are “not at the right time” and this issue needs to be put to rest. At the same time, the Ukrainian publication «Strana» previously wrote about the strengthening of contradictions between the political and military leadership of the country, as well as the spread in political circles of the version that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny is becoming an alternative to Zelensky and could become a candidate for the presidency of Ukraine.