I was there the year before the war, I guarantee you that corruption was still there

you make it sound like he did this by himself.

He is the public face of the government. Of course he didn't do everything by himself, good or bad. Everybody knows that already, it's a stupid point to make. He's chosen to take on the job of being his governments public face, and statements about government being directed at him personally is just part of the job.

Trump wasn't personally throwing children in jail, but when people talk about the border detentions that happened during his presidency, we still say Trump did it.

Obama didn't personally approve every drone strike, he was backed up by plenty of other politicians, but we still say Obama increased the drone strikes.

All of those opposition parties banned have explicitly been in favor of Russia annexing Ukraine. Literally every one.

That's not true. One pro-russian co-founder of the biggest opposition party was expelled and they publicly condemned Putin's invasion. Zelinski still banned the party.

There has been a ton of parliamentary agreement

Amongst his and other corrupt right wing parties glad to be unopposed

upheld in numerous appeals (incl by judges not having any associations with Zelensky).

This the same Ukrainian court system that was notorious for immense corruption up to and including the day before the invasion?

I’m by no means a “Zelensky-stan”

Then why are you repeating the untrue talking points of him and his government?

You are seriously being misled or are being malicious/spreading misinformation.

Nope, you've got that backwards.

Ukraine runs a parliamentary government. There is no “opposition party”.

There absolutely is. Just because there is a parliament doesn't mean that it's all one party or that there are no parties.

Americans for some reason always view foreign government political parties through the lens of American politics.

I'm a Dane. Here in Denmark we have a parliamentary government too. We ABSOLUTELY have opposition parties.

This is not like the government banning Republicans.

No, this is more like the UK Tories Banning Labour, the Lib Dems and all other parties to the left of them.

This is like banning the “Socialists for the release of Alaska to Russia” party.

Again with regurgitating the untrue government propaganda 🙄

Yeah, because pretending to play a piano with your dick means you can't be corrupt and newcomers to politics aren't at all vulnerable to corrupting influence from establishment figures teaching them how the system works 🙄

The myth that an outsider with no experience in politics will automatically govern in less corrupt ways is just that: a myth.

On the contrary, someone with no proven track record of honesty in public office is a huge gamble, especially given that the risk of taking the wrong advice previously mentioned.