Telegram commentary on Sodol's removal

In the last article about Sodol, we looked at how Zelensky’s fear of the army’s popularity drives its never-ending purge. A statistic released today confirms that. As commented by strana.ua:

Most surveyed Ukrainians (78.5%) expressed distrust towards the entire state apparatus, according to a survey by the Razumkov Center.

The government is distrusted by 73%, the Verkhovna Rada - 76%, political parties - 77.5%, the judicial system - 73%, the prosecutor's office - 64%.

Anti-corruption structures created at the behest of the West are also not trusted by society: SAP - 63%, NABU - 62%, NAPC - 62%.

Half of the respondents do not trust the media.

The most trust is in the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) (90%).

54% trust Zelenskyy, although in January it was 69%. His deputy Ermak is distrusted by 64%.

"Another very bad trend. This is the decline in trust towards all institutions, both state and non-state. A strong decline since March 2024," comments MP Zheleznyak.

My last article went into how Azov faulted Sodolov for leaving them to fight a hopeless, encircled battle in Mariupol. But what I didn’t mention is that there is a strong conspiratorial tendency among many Azovites to argue that this was intentional - that Zelensky, who’d always had bad relations with the nationalists, actually wanted Azov to be liquidated by the Russians. Hopefully in a future post I’ll be able to dig up some evidence of this from back when it was posted.

The following video shows Zelensky’s famous confrontation with a fairly low-level Azov fighter at the frontline in 2019, back when they were constantly staging protests accusing Zelensky of plotting to sell out the nationalists and implement the minsk agreements.

Serhii Sternenko, an extremely visible Odessan neo-nazi. He has been groomed by the west as a future political leader. I wrote about him a bit here. The following post was written soon after Azov’s Krotevych declared his opposition to Sodol, and before the latter was removed.