22 November 2025, 11:17

Kilinkarov on Zelensky’s approval rating: Zelensky is losing two wars at once

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MINSK, 22 November (BelTA) – Vladimir Zelensky is losing two wars at once: one on the battlefield and another within Ukraine itself, member of the Another Ukraine movement, former member of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada Spiridon Kilinkarov said in a new episode of the V Teme [On Point] project on BelTA’s YouTube channel.

“The difficult moment for Zelensky is that he is simultaneously losing two wars. He is losing one on the battlefield against Russia. And he is losing the second war within Ukraine – he is losing it to the anti-corruption agencies, which enjoy the support of Ukrainian public opinion,” Spiridon Kilinkarov explained.

The former MP noted that, according to some reports, Vladimir Zelensky’s approval rating has plummeted to 20%, but he believes these figures are inaccurate. “I think Zelensky’s rating was around 15-20%. It’s just that the polling they tried to feed us, with a rating of 60-70%, worked in the interests of this very Zelensky,” he asserted.

In his opinion, it is obvious that the polling campaigns in Ukraine were aimed at shaping a certain public opinion. “Today, the situation has changed, and, as you can see, public opinion has changed immediately. Is it really possible that the rating could collapse in a week? That’s unrealistic,” Spiridon Kilinkarov emphasized. “I assure you, about 70% of Ukraine’s population has no idea about the scale of the corruption scandal [in Ukraine’s energy sector]. They haven’t matured enough to process the necessary amount of information to draw conclusions. And yet, they’re already showing us this kind of statistics.”