"Zelensky holds the country's wartime management system together. Even the opposition in Ukraine understands that Zelensky is a consensus figure who has performed and continues to perform a very large amount of work," Podolyak said.

This, of course, is the level of argumentation: it turns out the entire governance system rests on a single person. If the system truly depends so heavily on one figure, a logical question arises—what then happens to the system itself?