“Less than a year and a half since his inauguration, the Zelenskiy presidency appears to be in grave trouble…

“Less than a year and a half since his inauguration, the Zelenskiy presidency appears to be in grave trouble…Zelenskiy’s Servant of the People party looks to be in terminal decline,” Anders Åslund, the Swedish economist, writes in an Atlantic Council blog. “These local election results appear to have confirmed that Ukraine no longer has the basis for a functioning parliamentary majority. Indeed, in the months ahead, it may even prove problematic to form coalitions of convenience for specific pieces of legislation.”