Mr. Wight cites the Putin Valdai "Discussion Club" stooge Richard Sakwa, an honorary prof in the Moscow State University faculty of political science, as if he's a neutral expert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sakwa

That's all you need to know to judge this Russia cheerleading useful idiot genocide apologist.

The idea that a country with a Jewish president and PM and a Crimean Tatar Muslim defense minister is Nazi and captured by blood and soil race nationalists is laughably demented.

The idea that Nuland's sandwiches handed out in the Maidan made the Revolution of Dignity a fascist coup and not a real civil society revolution is refuted by watching the Netflix documentary Winter on Fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzNxLzFfR5w

Russia's Ukraine erasure project is more than three centuries old and continues undiluted:

https://www.justsecurity.org/81789/russias-eliminationist-rhetoric-against-ukraine-a-collection/

From one Ukrainian in Kyiv a nuanced prewar analysis of the waning cult of Bandera, whose Nazi collaboration was carried out in a Nazi prison from 1941-44:

"“Politicians should be changed often, like diapers. And for the same reason”.

If Zelensky really supported Bandera, it would mean his undoing. Zelensky is a comedian, speaking mostly Russian, and a Jew...For Bandera those are enough reasons that Zelensky must not exist in Ukraine.

As far as I remember the poll of early 2019 or late 2018, a bit more Ukrainian citizens dislike Bandera than like him. Bandera support never wins you majority of Center, South, and East of Ukraine. They never needed Bandera, he is nothing for them at best, rather an enemy. Most of my family, except one insane alcoholic, never said a good word about Bandera or his followers. More to it, to stand for Bandera means to be at odds with every neighbor country of Ukraine — what most Ukrainians need not.

The more you support Bandera, the less votes you win in all-Ukrainian elections, as only in the West majority is really supportive of Bandera praisers.

Zelensky faces an impossible job: he tries to win support in different ends of Ukraine, which were and are antagonists in their political choices. He may say that he likes Bandera, but that will cost him votes, and if he really supported Bandera, he wouldn’t win the elections.

P.S. Disclaimer: I voted for Zelensky in presidential elections, but just to bring down Poroshenko. I don’t like Zelensky and I’m not going to vote for his party in the parliament elections.

If I believed that Zelensky really supports Bandera, I wouldn’t vote for him in any case."