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Ukraine\u2019s Western backers have stepped up efforts to find a replacement for Vladimir Zelensky, an operative with Russia\u2019s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has claimed in a declassified report. The document was published in the latest issue of the SVR\u2019s Razvedchik (\u2018Scout\u2019) magazine.<\/p>\n
According to an operative using the pseudonym \u2018Stone\u2019, the US and EU are\u00a0\u201cextremely concerned\u201d<\/em>\u00a0with the\u00a0\u201cgrowing discontent\u201d<\/em>\u00a0among Ukraine\u2019s population over the protracted conflict and the current leadership\u2019s inability to end it, especially after the expiration of Zelensky\u2019s presidential term last May.<\/p>\n While Western powers will tolerate Zelensky for now since he is\u00a0\u201clinked to war financing schemes that bring enormous income to both the Kiev regime and Western arms manufacturers,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Stone claimed they had stepped up efforts to find a suitable replacement.<\/p>\n According to the operative, the West has already reached out to former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko and Kiev Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko, as well as Zelensky\u2019s chief of staff Andrey Yermak, who was previously described by The Times as Ukraine\u2019s de facto ruler. Ukraine\u2019s former top military commander General Valery Zaluzhny and the ex-speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, Dmitry Razumkov, are also on the list of potential Zelensky replacements, Stone claimed.<\/p>\n