"In the first months of Russia's full-scale invasion, his defiance and everyman image won him global acclaim and overwhelming support at home. list of 4 itemsend of list But that unity, exhausted by four years of full-scale war, has given way to a more complex mood. Now, while many Ukrainians still back him as an international figurehead, concerns about governance and corruption are reshaping his standing domestically."
"In 2019, when Zelenskyy ran for president, he was a well-known comic actor, best known for playing a schoolteacher who wakes up to find he has been elected head of state after a video of him ranting against corruption, secretly recorded by his pupils, goes viral. His campaign used much of the same anticorruption rhetoric as his on-screen character, positioning himself as an outsider to the entrenched oligarchic networks that dominated Ukrainian politics."
"After Zelenskyy came to power, the realities of governing began to erode his everyman image as he first dealt with an energy crisis and then, the impact of the global COVID pandemic. In December 2021, two months before the war began, his popularity stood at just 31 percent, according to the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology. It is a cycle that Peter Dickinson, the British publisher of Business Ukraine magazine and editor of the Atlantic Council's UkraineAlert service,"
Volodymyr Zelenskyy was elected in 2019 as an anticorruption outsider and a popular comic actor whose campaign echoed his on-screen anti-corruption rhetoric. He won a landslide with 73 percent of the vote. Governing challenges, including an energy crisis and the global COVID pandemic, eroded his everyman image. Russia's full-scale invasion initially rallied Ukrainians around him, producing global acclaim and strong domestic support. After four years of full-scale war, national unity has frayed and public mood has become more complex. Many Ukrainians still back him internationally, but domestic concerns about governance and corruption have reshaped his standing. Observers see this pattern as a recurring cycle in Ukrainian politics.
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